Study about the development of self-descriptions and locus of self knowledge in children, based on the findings of Rosenberg (1979).

Abstract

The small-scale investigation looks into ways children provide self-descriptions and how these characteristics develop with age into more complex and insightful. The comparison is referred to Rosenberg findings (1979) of children characteristics which concluded that younger children tend to provide more physical descriptions, whereas older centre on their inner feelings and character traits. Also it implies that the locus of self-knowledge shifts from attachment figures to self. A semi-structured interview of two participants, Anne 8 and Kirsty 16 years old, was applied to investigate discrepancies in self-descriptions at different ages.  Then participants self-descriptions were classified into Rosenbergs four types of categories (Appendix 1). Also Rosenbergs theory  of locus of self-knowledge, which reflects on childrens autonomous and self-reflectiv…(short extract)