... female, participant A is seventeen years old and participant B is seven years and nine months old. A simple analysis of the data will be considered against the findings of Rosenberg and the development of a sense of self. Rosenberg argued that younger children focused on physical features, activities and behaviours when describing themselves, whilst older children relied more on psychological characteristics or traits of a more private and internal description. Rosenberg's findings were categorised into four main groups: physical (descriptions of observable features and physical achievements), character (descriptions of personal characteristics, traits or behaviours towards others), relationship (descriptions of interpersonal traits or relationships with others) and inner (descriptions of their private inner thoughts, secrets, emotions, dreams, wishes, beliefs and attitudes). Rosenberg's findings showed that the majority of young children focused on physical descriptors and the older children focused on character descriptors. Pg 2 of 6 Gail Adams T.M.A 04 U7740974 The locus of self-knowledge ...

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