Newman Philip R, Newman Barbara M
University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Adolescence. 2009 Autumn;44(175):523-37.
The theoretical concept of self-socialization suggests that an individual is able to reflect on the self, formulate a vision of a future self, set goals, and take actions that create or alter the developmental trajectory. This case study of a parachute child illustrates how a person constructs her life from a very young age, drawing on a profound capacity for personal agency to overcome obstacles, identify resources, and internalize values to build a life structure. A model of the psychosocial process of self-socialization emerges from this case. Following the disruption of a well-defined trajectory, self-socialization is observed as a sequence of actions, reflection, correction, and new actions. Self-socialization is possible when a strong sense of self-efficacy is applied to attaining internalized values and goals.
自我社会化的理论概念表明，个体能够反思自我，构想未来自我的愿景，设定目标，并采取行动来创造或改变发展轨迹。这个关于“ parachute child”（ parachute child直译为“降落伞儿童”，指父母为让孩子获得更好的教育等，以短期旅行等名义将孩子送到国外，孩子实际上处于无人监护状态的现象，这里可意译为“小留学生”）的案例研究说明了一个人如何从很小的时候就构建自己的生活，凭借强大的个人能动性来克服障碍、识别资源并内化价值观，以建立生活结构。从这个案例中得出了一个自我社会化心理社会过程的模型。在明确的轨迹被打乱之后，自我社会化表现为一系列行动、反思、纠正和新行动。当强烈的自我效能感被应用于实现内化的价值观和目标时，自我社会化是可能的。
