The imaginary audience refers to
an egocentric state where an individual imagines and believes that multitudes
of people are enthusiastically listening to or watching him or her. Though this
state is often exhibited in young adolescence, people of any age may harbor a
fantasy of an imaginary audience.
David Elkind coined the term
"imaginary audience" in 1967. The basic premise of the topic is that
people who are experiencing it feel as though their behavior or actions are the
main focus of other people's attention. It is defined as how willing a child is
to reveal alternative forms of themselves. The imaginary audience is a
psychological concept common to the adolescent stage of human development. It
refers to the belief that a person is under constant, close observation by
peers, family, and strangers. This imaginary audience is proposed to account
for a variety of adolescent behaviors and experiences, such as heightened
self-consciousness, distortions of others' views of the self, and a tendency toward
conformity and faddisms. This act stems from the concept of ego-centrism in
adolescents.
Elkind studied the effects of
imaginary audience and measured it using the Imaginary Audience Scale (IAS).
The results of his research showed that boys were more willing than girls to
express different sides of themselves to an audience. This apprehension from
girls has given rise to further research on the value of privacy to girls.
Imaginary audience influences behavior later in life in regards to risky behaviors
and decision-making techniques. Perhaps, imaginary audience is correlated with
a fear of evaluation or self-representation effects on self-esteem?
So, here adollesence assume that
many people who cared for his life, in fact, yet it is not like that adollesence
overconfident. Here young people are very egosentris and he thought he was
chief actor. It is not very nice happens, and will impact on their adult lives.
Santrock, John
W., Life Span Development, Texas:mcGRaw-hill companies, 2006
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