The textbook authors discuss how identity may fall into one of four statuses: diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement. Research shows that we have different areas of identity, including career identity, political identity, and religious identity. Write a journal entry reflecting on which status you are in for each of these three identities. Are you satisfied with your status in each? If not, what might you do to change your status? Finally, do you think these identity statuses are helpful and useful in conceptualizing identity?

In pairs - conduct an interview - with regards to identity status; you are searching for: a) exploration, b) comittment and c) reconsideration of comittment. You can make a choice of the area you feel most comfortable with: job, religion, family/career priorities.