Adolescents Whose Parents Have a Particularly Controlling Parenting Style Are

question 35

Multiple Choice

Adolescents whose parents have a particularly controlling parenting style are more likely to have which identity status?

• A)identity diffusion
• B)moratorium
• C)foreclosure
• D)identity achievement

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Definitions:

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory proposed by Freud that describes a child's feelings of desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy and rivalry with the same-sex parent.

Impulsiveness

A tendency to act on spontaneous desires without considering the consequences.

Superego

Part of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, representing the ethical or moral self that counters the impulses of the id.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that mediates the demands of the id, superego, and reality.