PERIODIC REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT

Periodic Reflective Account

Periodic Reflective Account

September 2010

An important youth belonging to the constituent college students, who have their own psychological peculiarities of this stage of life. Including that of being in an important period of development of his personality, which produces a display of the potential of youth as a subject, facilitating independence and flexibility of thought and action. From the psychological point of view at this stage of life, cognitive component, emotional and behavioral are more integrated. So they are more stable and act as support to the development of future projects of the young, developing flexibility to overcome barriers and reach a state of equilibrium.

To exist, means potentially build projects in which man displays his skills and resources. Some psychological terms to describe man's tendency to exalt the future are, objectives, plans, goals, projects and intentions, from a humanistic point of view. From the standpoint of psychology is mainly used Marxist terminology ideals (Boatright, 2009). Some theoretical considerations on the subject at both the psychology of non-Marxist and the Marxist, is provided by Dominguez and Ibarra to analyze the contributions of various authors on the same. However, the variety in the analysis of these theoretical considerations, one can not fail to note its importance to the working refer to cognitive structuring of the future projection for individuals as well as the subject's active role in this process.

October 2010

Marxist researchers have also conducted important studies on future prospects, highlighting among others, Bozhovich, who studies the future projection as "ideal", other considerations are those of the researcher Kon which defines it as "plan of life." His assessment is to see this plan of life as an activity, which also includes the final result, the ways in which the individual did it, as well as objective and subjective resources used for that purpose (Hepworth, Rooney & Rooney, 2009). In the case of Cuba, Gonzalez, provided significant contributions on the subject of future projects, expanded the definition of Bozhovich about the category of "personality orientation" and introduced the concept of "guiding personality tendency," in turn Arias and D'Angelo, are devoted to the study of the subject matter, leading to the formulation of important assumptions, which have enriched the theory of the future projection of personality (Haralambos & Holborn, 2004).

The project life is defined as "a psychological subsystem... the person in its key dimensions of life... is an ideal model of what the individual expects or wants to be and do, which is part concrete in the actual layout and their ability to achieve internal and external, defending his relationship to the world and to himself, his reason for being as an individual in a context and a certain type of society (Hoare, 2006). The young man must first of all decide on his future position in the social environment and then to channel and organize their behavior in a manner consistent with this purpose.

November 2010

Decision-making is determined or influenced by the process of self-determination of the individual's personality and this ...