A GUIDE TO YOUR IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT

Providing Core Identity Building Tools to Emerging Adults ... and to All Adults Working on Their Identities

Identify and Take Aim at Your Future Goals

Building Your Identity by developmental psychologist Mike Boyes, Ph.D., is designed to help emerging adults (17–29-year-olds) and adults of all ages understand what is involved in building and maintaining their identities, find the identity-building tools they need, see why the identity-building process is more challenging these days, and figure out what to do about it.

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Identity Building Involves Figuring Out:

  • Who you are or will become?
  • What are you going to do?
  • How will you get there?
  • What do you believe or stand for?
  • What do you want your relationships to be like?
  • What are you currently like?
  • What will your future self be like?

Research Indicates

That these are age-old questions that have become more challenging given the what living in the world these days is like and are causing more stress and anxiety in recent years.

This site will not tell you what your identity should include; instead, drawing upon research into identity building, this site will help you to decide, and build, your own identity, through:

  • Start by finding out what your current approach to identity building involves and how it might vary depending on what parts of your identity you are working on,
  • Help you understand what each of the identity-building approaches involves and their strengths and challenges,
  • Find out how to Gather GREAT Life Data
  • Follow the Pathfinding Guide to identify and take aim at your future goals!
  • Try the growing list of hints, tips, and links to Identity building resources.
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