fidelity is strictly commitment -- Adolescent Psychology Applied to Education

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Subject: fidelity is strictly commitment

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A.J. Stich (commitment means commitment)

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Date Posted: 16:24:53 03/22/08 Sat

When doing my presentation, I don't know why I automatically assumed fidelity meant "happiness" in the context of the research paper I wrote. But I've been thinking about it a lot because I, and others I've talked with about my presentation since Saturday, have expressed concern about associating positive human psychological attributes with happiness. One would assume that the process from low levels of identity development towards commitment would be an emotional development towards happiness, but there are some serious examples that dissuade that conclusion I drew. For instance, if an individual were to develop the identity of a psychopathic killer and reached commitment in doing so, that would probably wouldn't lead to happiness. Or would it? I don't know.

A very clear example of identity development that would not lead to happiness would be in the development of a pessimist. That pessimistic identity achievement would not be an achievement of happiness.

For some reason, and this may just be very naive of me (honestly), I think that psychology should evidently lead to more happiness and any psychological foundations that do not do so should be reconsidered for more practical studies that lead to satisfaction. That is why I automatically assumed fidelity correlated with happiness. This may very well be an ideological flaw of mine.

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