The Research On The Self-identity Crisis Of University Students’ Internet Socialization

Self-identity crisis is a kind of uncertainty on self-identity, is a loss of autonomy on one’s social subjectivity, is the anxiety that they are not able to give a clearly answer to the question "who he is ". The people in modern society are undertaking more confuse about self-identity which is exactly self-identity crisis than the people live in ancient ages. This is because the modern high-tech development, especially the rapid development of the Internet which brought out convenient conditions for people’s living. also gave rise to a deep introspection that need to be considered all the time. With the development of Internet technology and its rapid spread in China, Internet is becoming more and more important not only in college students’ learning but also in their lives. The network which is playing an important role on the life of college students also influences their behaviors and thinking in many aspects. The network became a new but very important avenue for the socialization of the contemporary college students. In this way, the contemporary college students are experiencing profound risk of self-identity crisis too. The college students themselves are in a stage within a immature mental which is lack of necessary rational judgment and adjustment in the self-awareness, cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal relationship. The socialization of internet brought out pros and cons to the college students at the same time, especially virtual environment existing in network societycan easily make them addicted to the Internet, which is difficult to extricate themselves, If it goes on, the college students bound to be confused with the real self and the network self and generate self-identity crisis eventually.In this article, the author draws on the theoretical study from some scholars, while the identity of the author is a graduate student of the third grade in Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, which brings convenient condition on using methods of literature research and participant observation. In this way, the author can make research based on the detailed field surveys on the self-identity crisis of the college students’ internet socialization.The author concluded the performance of self-identity crisis of the college students internet socialization by observing the status of university students internet socialization and trying to combine Bandura’s social learning theory, role theory, and Erickson’s self-identity crisis theory to explore that the huge differences between the internet socialization and reality socialization will cause college students to generate self-identity crisis. The internet socialization because of its virtual environment, the autonomy of object socialized, openness and diversification of the social content have enormous differences with traditional reality socialization, In addition to this, college students are in the key stage of self-identity formation, they are bound to be affected in positive or negative ways by using of the network in long-term directly or subtle.In the key part of this thesis, The author analyzes the performance of self-identity crisis and the reason why such crisis come out deeply. In part of the performance of self-identity crisis, firstly, the author elaborates that people’s interpersonal norms can be wakened by internet socialization and they will be alienated from the reality society, which may increase obstacles in the reality of human interpersonal interaction and reduce the demand on the reality of human interaction. The author sums up that university students got materialization in the interaction of human and machine and exiled their reality roles. Secondly, the author proves that the university students have activities anomie and moral awareness is re-socialization in internet society. Because the flooding of bad information in internet society caused the decline of university students’moral and faith crisis and the lack of management and supervision for internet activities misconducts their ethical anomie. Finally, the author describes that "the virtual role play" leads to the failure of the college students’realistic role-playing and they indulge in the internet-self, keep away from reality-self because of the easy controlling of the virtual environment. By describing that the author summarizes that university students hang around in the virtual realization but escape reality realization.The author discussed the causes for self-identity crisis base on its performance. First of all. he variety of self-presentation on internet makes university students’self-presentation in reality society blurred and the sense of fulfillment produced on internet trigs their emptiness of reality interaction. What’s more, university students’ moral awareness is weakened in that the network behavior is not easily controlled by social norms because of its anonymity and their moral socialization is impacted due to the decline of their moral standard for the negative sub-culture generated on the internet. Lastly, the excessive dependence of the network results the college students’ failure in its students role and escape their reality frustration through, which makes reality self-realization indulge in virtual achievements.The innovation of this thesis is that the author combines Bandura’s social learning theory, role theory, and Erickson’s self-identity crisis theory to analyze the performance and reason of self-identity crisis generated during the university students internet socialization.In the end, the author tries to give reasonable proposals to deal with the self-identity crisis of university students’ internet socialization mainly from aspects including university students themselves, school, family, and society. They can joint efforts to proceed from the following three areas:leisure management which can make the the pastime on internet become one of the multiple levels of university students’social; development of literacy on internet which form university students insight into network information and the ability to think critically; upgrading career planning, which continue to indicate a realistic path to university students self-realization.