Title: (Optional) Analyze how family influences the development of personal identity and future orientation.
Course: Individual Development (19260-18) > Section: Exploring Personal Development

Analysis should include

- taking a self-inventory and evaluating how the results relate to future orientation
- identifying personal identity will evolve over the course of the lifespan
- recognizing low future orientation
- developing strategies to reinforce high future orientation and decrease low future orientation by focusing on recognizing skills, feeling appreciated, and being responsible
- identifying the significance of birth order across cultures
- describing how family behaviors can affect future interpersonal relationships and physical and mental health
- identifying family activities and communication methods that can affect educational and professional success
- describing how family affects the individual's sense of "right" and "wrong" (i.e., morality).

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- How does the amount of time and commitment shown by parents toward their family affect children?
- What are the most effective ways a family can build personal development and future orientation in children?
- How can a family’s history help or hinder one’s personal identity?

Communication

- How do parents convey attitudes toward diet, exercise, education, and career choices?
- Are families or laws more effective communicators of what is “right” or “wrong”? Explain.

Leadership

- What family actions can build or negate individual development related to leadership?
- Do children imitate parental leadership actions they see? Explain.
- How might leadership attitudes be affected differently in single-parent homes?

Management

- How do parents affect development related to attitudes and approaches to interpersonal relationships?
- Will well-organized parents always produce similar characteristics in their children? Why or why not?
- How does a family’s socioeconomic status affect family-management choices?