The Development of Self and Identity in Adolescence: Neural Evidence and Implications for a Value‐Based Choice Perspective on Motivated Behavior

Following a key developmental task of childhood—building a foundation of self‐knowledge in the form of domain‐specific self‐concepts—adolescents begin to explore their emerging identities in ways that foster autonomy and connectedness. Neuroimaging studies of self‐related processes demonstrate enhan...

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Veröffentlicht in:Child development perspectives Jg. 12; H. 3; S. 158 - 164
Hauptverfasser: Pfeifer, Jennifer H., Berkman, Elliot T.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2018
Schlagworte:
Accumulation
Adolescence
Adolescent Development
Adolescents
Adults
Autonomy
Behavior
Child development
Childhood
Cognition
Cognitive-behavioral factors
Cortex
Decision Making
Developmental Tasks
Identity
Neuroimaging
Self concept
self‐development
Teenagers
Value
value‐based decision making
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex
adolescence
value-based decision making
self-development
ISSN:1750-8592, 1750-8606
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Zusammenfassung:Following a key developmental task of childhood—building a foundation of self‐knowledge in the form of domain‐specific self‐concepts—adolescents begin to explore their emerging identities in ways that foster autonomy and connectedness. Neuroimaging studies of self‐related processes demonstrate enhanced engagement of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (PFC) in adolescence, which may facilitate and reflect the development of identity by integrating the value of potential actions and choices. Drawing from neuroeconomic and social‐cognitive accounts, we propose that motivated behavior during adolescence can be modeled by a general value‐based decision‐making process centered around value accumulation in the ventromedial PFC. This approach advances models of adolescent neurodevelopment that focus on reward sensitivity and cognitive control by considering more diverse value inputs, including contributions of developing self‐ and identity‐related processes. It also considers adolescent decision making and behavior from adolescents' point of view rather than adults' perspectives on what adolescents should value or how they should behave.
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ISSN:1750-8592
1750-8606
DOI:10.1111/cdep.12279