Sunday, 21 August 2016

#1 Question about why people can be independent?

“What psychological research had been discovered about why people can be independent?”


Well, independence is a subjective term and I imagine it’s quite difficult to research. What I consider to be independent may not be the same for you, or different situations may encourage people to behave differently. Humans are also horrible at judging themselves.

From the top of my head, there’s been studies into ‘Locus of Control’ which is how much personal control you believe to have in a situation. You can either have internal (You take full responsibility/control for your behaviour and actions) or external (You don’t take responsibility and believe other people control actions or behaviour in your life, or that it was all luck).

or Erikson devised life stages in which we all progress through in our own time. During each stage we have to ‘resolve’ the current conflict. 
Eg; The adolescence stage deals with Identity Vs Confusion. Independence could form here as you could experience the complexity of life and would learn about different types of perception (sensory, logical and aesthetic).




Have a look on [scholar.google.co.uk] and search the term autonomy/autonomous as well.

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