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Identity development and personal fable
Personal fable is an important process that every adolescent would go through and it makes a great impact on how adolescent will view themselves later on in life span. The researches and journals show how personal fable has impact on identity development. When it comes to identity, adolescent’s egocentrismis an important issue to discuss which links to self-compassion. Adolescent spend time on developing cognitive skills to understand what others are thinking or try to understand and this explains the theory of mind .

Research about Theory of Mind
Theory of mind emerges after three to four years old and keeps developing until adolescent. Müge Artar did a research to compare adolescences with higher egocentrism and adolescent with more emotional inference and their relationships with their parents. It is important for the adolescent to perceive what their family’s thoughts. There are 11 adolescents between 16 to 18 years old who attended high school and their 43-47 years of age parents participated in the experiment. All participants are in middle socioeconomic status. They were also interviewed voluntarily. Qualitative data analysis was used in this study. Participants are asked. “When you have problems with your mother/father, what dies your mother/father feel? What do you feel? Does your mother/father think what you feel?” Interviews are conducted by trained interviewer and nine pilot interviews were done to finalize the interview schedule. Social-emotional questions were based on the adolescents’ understanding of their mother and father’s beliefs and questions need multiple inferential integration. The result of personal fable was divided into three parts: uniqueness, omnipotence, and invulnerability. Most of the adolescents perceived their relationship with parents relevantly and also perceive images about family network.

Self compassion and Personal Fable
“Self-compassion is an adaptive way of relating to the self when considering personal inadequacies or difficult life circumstances.” Self-compassion refers to the ability to hold one’s feelings of suffering with a sense of warmth, connection, and concern. Neff, K.D.(2003b) has proposed three major components of self-compassion. The first is self-kindness, which refers to the ability to treat oneself with care and understanding rather than harsh self-judgment. The second involves a sense of common humanity, recognizing that imperfection is a shared aspect of the human experience rather than feeling isolated by one’s failures. The third component of self-compassion is mindfulness, which involves holding one’s present-moment experience in balanced perspective rather than exaggerating the dramatic story-line of one’s suffering. At the same time personal fable could lead to lack of self-compassion if one’s difficulties and failings are not faced and given meaning to be human. Self-compassion might also be able to meditate personal well being which can help explain the relationship between personal fable and poor mental health. There are 235 participants from age 14 to 17 and also 287 participants from age 19-24. They are all from different high schools and colleges in the same city. There is no compensation for participation. The socioeconomic backgrounds are largely middle class(Neff & McGehee's). Self-compassion explained significant additional variance in well-being over the above maternal support. It could meditate the link between the predictors of maternal support, such as personal fable. It was also attached to well-being. Base on the two experiments, we can see that most of the experiments that are related to personal fable have to be in question form. Interviewers were trained and were to ask question about how participants feel. In both experiments, participants are expected to answer the questions about their own personal feelings. Participants had to trust the interviewer in order to do make it work. In contrast, the first experiment focuses more on asking participants what they feel about others (parents). On the other hand, the second experiment focuses on the feeling of self, how participant actually feel about themselves(Neff & McGehee's).

Identity exploration and Emerging Adulthood
Arnett(2000) suggested that in adolescents' identity exploration, it is more transient and tentative. (Arnett, 2000). Adolescent dating is recreational in nature, involving group activities. They are still exploring their identity before asking the question "Given the kind of person I am, What kind of person do I wish to have a partner through life?" (Arnett, 2000, p.473). With increasing opportunities to pursue higher education and greater delays in marriage and childbirth (Arnett, 2007), there is now more time, beyond adolescence, for activities and reflections surrounding self-definition and identity development. (Kose, Papouchis& Fireman). When adolescents start to develop the cognitive skill to understand others feeling and what they are thinking, also known as theory of mind. This help adolescents to develop their own sense of self and their own way of perceive the world. It is normal for adolescents to feel personal fable. It is what drives them to develop their own sets of skills to understand others thoughts and feelings. And this also triggers their ability to seek out their own identity. Arnett(2000) argues that as the age of adulthood had been move back and the age of becoming an adult is getting older than the past. There is more time for the adolescents to explore themselves more. He thought that his period of exploration seems that perspective-talking skills are being sharpened most dramatically. Personal fable also help adolescents transition from exploring one self to seeking extended experimentation, particularly in relationships, during the transition of young adulthood. Elkind though thought that the extension period for identity exploration and less pressure to take on typical adult roles teens are special and invulnerable, but are not feeling on center stage as often felt by the adolescents. (Elkind et al., Lapsley et al., 1989). Which means that for example, some young adults might still have the feeling that they are special inside and invulnerable but they are not likely to get involve in risky behaviors. Some current findings suggesting that increase in personal fable ideation are associated with increase in identity and formal operations particularly among this young adult age group. Increase in personal fable ideation, feelings of invulnerability, among emerging adults may explain the heightened level of maladaptive behaviors among this group. For example, studies might explore how faulty thinking, particularly personal fable ideation, is related to risk behavior and how interventions can be tailored to address the type of thinking if leading to harmful out comes for the young adults(18-25 years old). There is also some findings suggests that the increase in personal fable ideation associated with increase in identity status among the emerging adult may not have been uncovered. That is why further study suggests that improvements in the measurement of personal fable could actually advance the understanding of the conflicting findings in the literature on these constructs. Young adults have to be able to cope with identity crisis at the same time knowing that personal fable is driving them to risky behaviors. If young adults do not cope with the inner conflicts, they will be likely to involve in risk-behaviors. But further research needs to be done on this area. Right now what researchers understand is that as the age of emerging adulthood is later than before, personal fable is also following the adolescent thought the emerging. Which cost them to have risk-taking behavior even though that age group appear to as adults.