Question

Jennifer, a 35-year-old successful businesswoman and a mother, is offered a senior role at work. The role comes with a hefty paycheck, but it also requires her to move to a new city for five years. She would have to leave her family behind. She has a 2-year-old daughter and will miss out on her daughter's early childhood years if she takes the job. Jennifer loves her job as well as her family and finds it extremely difficult to make this important decision. In the context of Roy Baumeister's concept of identity crises, Jennifer is most likely experiencing _____ in this scenario.

Answer 1

Answer:

An identity conflict

Explanation:

Self-Concept

This is simply known as the way a people sees, understands, and defines themselves.

Social identity

This simply deals with the social aspects of the human self, that is, it is the part of ourselves we use to create an impression, to let other people know who we are and what can be expected from us. Identity often refers most times to aspects of the self that are socially observable or publicly available outward, such as ethnicity or gender or age.

Identity conflict

According to Baumeister, an identity conflict is simply a case of an incompatibility between two or more aspects of identity. This kind of crisis do happens if an individual is forced to make an important and difficult life decision. They uses the "approach-approach" conflicts method in that the person wants to reach two mutually contradictory goals.

Even though these conflicts involve wanting two desirable identities, identity conflicts uses intense feelings of guilt or remorse over perceived unfaithfulness to an important aspect of the person's identity.