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According to Alberts, Elkind, and Ginsberg the personal fable "is the corollary to the imaginary audience.Thinking of themselves as the center of attention, the adolescent comes to believe that it is because they are special and unique.” [1] It is found during the formal operational stage in Piagetian theory, along with the imaginary audience.
Kimberly A Schonert-Reichl's (1994) study on the relationship between depressive symptomatology and adolescent egocentrism recruited 62 adolescents (30 males, 32 females) aged from 12 to 17. The study used Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale (RADS), [14] Imaginary Audience Scale (IAS) [12] and the New Personal Fable Scale (NPFS) [15] as ...
The extremes to which adolescents experience an imaginary audience, however, varies from child to child. Some children are considered to be more "egocentric" than others and experience more of an extreme imaginary audience or have more of an elaborate personal fable. [2]
Adolescents are often faced with new social environments (for example, starting secondary school) which require the adolescent to protect, and focus on, the self. [21] Development of an adolescent's identity may involve perceiving high levels of uniqueness. This manifests as the personal fable. [22]
Adolescent egocentrism can be dissected into two types of social thinking: imaginary audience and personal fable. Imaginary audience consists of an adolescent believing that others are watching them and the things they do. Personal fable is not the same thing as imaginary audience but is often confused with imaginary audience.
A personal fable is when the adolescent feels that he or she is a unique person and everything they do is unique. They feel as if they are the only ones that have ever experienced what they are experiencing and that they are invincible and nothing bad will happen to them, bad things only happen to other people. [9]
Fable, a book tracking app, has apologized and will remove its most popular AI features after some readers received controversial messages. Fable embroiled in controversy over offensive AI reader ...
Elkind and his family relocated to California when he was a teenager. He studied at the University of California at Los Angeles and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952 and Doctorate in Philosophy in 1955.