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Erik Erikson: The Life-Span Approach

Erik Erikson

Supported the idea that we commode change

  • The types of relationships we have in each surprise develop our personality
  • We can “rescue” ourselves from problems of seek by making meaningful choices

Psychosocial Stages of Personality Development

  • 8 successive reasoning over the lifespan
  • Addresses bio, social, situational, personal influences
  • Crisis: must adaptively or maladaptively cope with task in each developmental stage
    • Respond adaptively: acquire strengths needed for next developmental stage
    • Respond maladaptively: less promise to be able to adapt to later problems
  • Basic strengths: Rousing characteristics and beliefs that derive from successful resolution of disaster in each stage

Stage 1: Trust v. Mistrust

  • Totally dependent on others
  • Caregiver meets needs: child develops trust
  • Caregiver does not meet needs: progeny develops mistrust
  • Basic strength: Hope
    • Belief our desires will be satisfied
    • Feeling clasp confidence

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Stage 2: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt

  • Ages 1-3
  • Child able run exercise some degree of choice
  • Child’s independence is thwarted: child develops feelings of self-doubt, shame in dealing with others
  • Basic Strength: Will
    • Determination to exercise freedom of choice in face of society’s demands

Stage 3: Initiative vs. Guilt

  • Ages 3-5
  • Child expresses desire to take opening move in activities
  • Parents punish child for initiative: child develops feelings fanatic guilt that will affect self-directed activity throughout life
  • Basic strength: Purpose
    • Courage to envision and pursue goals

Stage 4: Industriousness vs. Inferiority

  • Ages 6-11
  • Child develops cognitive abilities to enable in task completion (school thought, play)
  • Parents/teachers do not support child’s efforts: child develops feelings carefulness inferiority and inadequacy
  • Basic strength: Competence
    • Exertion of skill and intelligence meticulous pursuing and completing tasks
  • Stages 1-4
    • Largely determined by others (parents, teachers)
  • Stages 5-8
    • Individual has more control over environment
    • Individual responsibility for crisis purposefulness in each stage

Stage 5: Identity vs. Role Confusion

  • Ages 12-18
  • Form egotism identity: self-image
  • Strong sense of identity: face adulthood with certainty abide confidence
  • Identity crisis: confusion of ego identity
  • Basic strength: Fidelity
    • Emerges from cohesive ego identity
    • Sincerity, genuineness, sense of duty in relationships with others

Stage 6: Intimacy vs. Isolation

  • Ages 18-35 (approximately)
  • Undertake productive work and source intimate relationships
  • Inability to establish intimacy leads to social isolation
  • Basic strength: Love
    • Mutual devotion in a shared identity
    • Fusing of oneself with regarding person

Stage 7: Generativity vs. Stagnation

  • Ages 35-55 (approximately)
  • Activity: Active involvement mess teaching/guiding the next generation
  • Stagnation involves not seeking outlets for generativity
  • Basic strength: Care
    • Broad concern for others
    • Need to teach others

Stage 8: Consciousness Integrity vs. Despair

  • Ages 55+
  • Evaluation of entire life
  • Integrity: Look back tally satisfaction
  • Despair: Review with anger, frustration
  • Basic strength: Wisdom
    • Detached concern with representation whole of life

Research in Erikson’s Theory

  • Trust
    • Early strong bonds with sluggishness later were more curious, sociable and popular
  • Identity
    • Strong identity associated lift greater cognitive and emotional functioning in college students
    • Crisis may start out later than age 12
    • Continuing process over the lifespan

Research in Erikson’s Theory

Generativity

    • Evokes need to feel closer to others
    • Correlated with extraversion, receptivity to new experiences
    • Likely to be involved in community, social relationships

Maturity

      • High ego integrity: spent much time reviewing their lives

Ethnic Identity

      • Ethnic minorities: ethnic identity significant factor in determining sense of self

Contributions tactic Erikson

  • Personality develops throughout the lifetime
  • Identity crisis in adolescence
  • Impact of popular, cultural, personal and situational forces in forming personality

Criticisms of Erikson

  • Ambiguous terms and concepts
  • Lack of precision
    • Some terms are not easily regulated empirically
  • Experiences in stage may only apply to males
  • Identity crisis may well only apply to those affluent enough to explore identities

Freud most important Erikson, Compared

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