Malala Yousafzai is a 16-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl and girls' education advocate whose growing popularity has sparked hatred against her and her cause of the part of the Taliban. She gained international fame after surviving an assassination attempt while walking home from school. Before the shooting, she had received several death threats, but she remained steadfast in her belief that all young women should have the right to education and did not tone down her message. After the assassination attempt, she displayed courage beyond her years in the face of a difficult recovery process, demonstrating her true strength and perseverance. Young Malala's development of techniques to cope with the challenges she faced included the psychological concepts of gender schema, Kohlberg's "post-conventional morality," and Erickson's stage of identity and role confusion. . Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. , which is located in the Swat region. The Pakistani Taliban, an Islamist military group based in northwest Pakistan, had previously attempted to ban girls from schools in the Swat Valley, a practice Malala had spoken out against. Perhaps Malala's greatest influence in her actions was her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, an educator, poet and activist in his own right. It was through her father's influence that she wrote a speech titled: "How dare the Taliban take away my fundamental right to education?" Shortly after, she wrote anonymously for a BBC blog, detailing the Taliban's increasingly repressive actions, including school bombings, which reached the Swat Valley. Her popularity grew and she received many awards, including the Pakistan National Youth Peace Prize in 2011. Despite instructions from the Taliban. Malala also embodies a post-conventional morality, true to herself and her defined and inherent values ​​and morals. His forgiveness of his attackers and his continued pursuit of his goals are proof of this. Erickson's stage of “identity and role confusion” is visible in Malala, who fully understood her identity as a student in Pakistan advocating for the rights of all female students. If she had been shot five years earlier, it's unlikely she would have been able to handle the challenge in the same way. Not having time to fully understand politics and morality, she may not have continued her plea or forgiven her attacker. We should all ask ourselves how we can, in our own way, live up to the ideals that Malala set. How can we use our gender schemas, moral stage and psychosocial development to make a difference in the world?