The personal fable, is a cognitive distortion where
adolescents believe that they are the focus of everyone else's attention and
concern. It is found during the formal operational stage in Neo-piagetian
theory, along with the imaginary audience. Feelings of invulnerability are also
common. The term "personal fable" was first coined by the
psychologist David Elkind in his 1967 work Egocentrism in Adolescence.
Feelings of uniqueness may stem from fascination with one's
own thoughts to the point where an adolescent believes that his or her thoughts
or experiences are completely novel and unique when compared to the thoughts or
experiences of others. This belief stems from the adolescent's inability to
differentiate between the concern(s) of his or her thoughts from the thoughts
of others, while simultaneously over-differentiating his or her feelings.Thus,
an adolescent is likely to think that everyone else (the imaginary audience) is
just as concerned with him as the he himself is; while at the same time, this
adolescent might believe that he is the only person who can possibly experience
whatever feelings he might be experiencing at that particular time and that
these experiences are unique to him. According to David Elkind (1967), an
adolescent's intense focus on himself or herself as the center of attention is
what ultimately gives rise to the belief that one is completely unique, and in
turn, this may give rise to feelings of invulnerability. Ultimately, the two
marked characteristics of personal fable are feelings of uniqueness and
invulnerability. Or as David Elkind states, "this complex of beliefs in
the uniqueness of (the adolescent's) feelings and of his immortality might be
called a "personal fable", a story which he tells himself and which
is not true."
So often if someone on remajanya so often, like talking to
myself of dramatizing an issue happened to him. And if he does not can handle
it then would be taken until he ' s strong. People like this probably is very
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s so cute.
Santrock, John
W., Life Span Development, Texas:mcGRaw-hill companies, 2006
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