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Pg 1of 6 Gail Adams T.M.A 04 U7740974 This study aims to investigate the way in which two young individuals make self-descriptions and how these may change with age in the context of the findings of Morris Rosenberg's (1979). Abstract Rosenberg claimed that on the basis of his research younger individuals tended to describe themselves more so on a physical basis whereas; older individuals used character and/or relationship traits to describe the self. Rosenberg argued that outer relatedness changed to inner, as one gets older. Rosenberg's findings were collated into four categories: physical, character, relationships and inner. Rosenberg also investigated the concept of the locus of self-knowledge. There were distinct similarities between Rosenberg's studies and this study although this study is only a small-scale investigation and cannot validate Rosenberg's findings. Introduction Rosenberg (1979) interviewed a sample of eight to eighteen year olds about various aspects of their sense of self. The children were selected at random from...

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