Identity Exploration

No consistent evidence of identity exploration in daily contexts

• Does not demonstrate identity exploration behaviours
• Relies entirely on adult direction for related tasks

Beginning to show identity exploration with significant support

• Inconsistent identity exploration; needs adult prompting
• Partial performance in familiar, structured settings

Demonstrates identity exploration consistently in familiar contexts

• Applies identity exploration reliably in routine situations
• Requires prompting to transfer to new or demanding contexts

Actively experiments with roles, values, and self-definitions; tolerates the ambiguity of unresolved identity questions.

• Demonstrates identity exploration independently across varied contexts
• Sustains performance without adult support or reminders

Applies identity exploration flexibly; can articulate and model it for others

• Articulates own process when applying identity exploration
• Transfers skill spontaneously to novel domains