Timeline Life Events

Influences of Timeline Events on Identity Development Identity can be personal when we think of ourselves individually. However, it can be defined as identity is the concept you develop about yourself that changes over your lifespan. These changes are or may be influences that include how you perceive work, school, marriage, family, values and beliefs. Some of these influences may be positive or negative. Nonetheless, impacts of various factors become developing instruments to making us unique individuals and our outlook on life (Broderick & Blewitt, 2010).
The identity of an individual has unique differences depending on the association with his or her personal and social functioning in society, especially during the formation of identity in the adolescent years of development (Crocetti, Rubini,, Luyckx&, Meeus, 2008). The influences of personal identity development will illustrate through the time line of my life events from birth through adulthood.

Life event analysis
Life Event I: 1966-1972 Born to a family with a stay at home mother and working father and Started elementary school This event was an age-graded event of particular significance to my development of identity because of the way it affected my attachment style. My mother was a house wife for a while until the birth of my second brother. As a young child, my father
However, at this stage in my life I realized I was entering into the work force immediately after high school graduation. Although I decided not to go into college I decided to take a trade up and attend a trade school for two years, work and then go back to college. Nonetheless the biggest adjustment was societal and environmental pressures. According to Schaie’s theory emphasizes the importance of new roles, needs, and responsibilities that determine intellectual functioning (Broderick & Blewitt,p.417,