Developmental Challenges a Person Must Resolve According to Arnett (2016), Erikson defined that human development is driven by the need to become integrated into the social and cultural environment. Erikson branched his definition off of Freud’s psychosexual theory. In short, Freud’s theory focused on the driving force behind development being sexuality, but Erikson took a different approach. He was the first to pursue a life span theory of human development. There are eight stages of Erikson’s psychosocial theory, but since the participants are both adults, the main stages of focus will be the adult stages. A thorough analysis will be conducted in order to show the inaccuracy of Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development.
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The 6th stage is the intimacy versus isolation stage and from his interview, he has proven that he is currently in this stage. He was in a committed relationship during the interview and has his life goals focused around settling down and getting married with someone. One could tell from the interview that he has finally found someone that he could potentially spend the rest of his life with. He seems to be close to successfully completing this stage of Erikson’s psychosocial theory. Even though subject A fit the stage of development Erikson assigned him, subject B seems to be in between two stages. The stage that subject B should be in is the 7th stage of Erikson’s psychosocial theory, which is the generativity versus stagnation stage. In a way he does fit into this stage, he is the age that one should be when in this stage, has the priority of making his children strong and independent, and is focused on being productive at work. Subject B understood that now was his time to give back to society. Due to the divorce subject B had recently, he had to go back into the dating world which is why he also belong in the same stage subject A is in, the intimacy versus isolation stage. He was starting to date someone new, but could see himself married to her in the near …show more content…
From the evidence that was collected through the process of assigning a stage to each participant, Erikson’s theory wasn’t accurate. The first problem that arose was how subject B fit into two categories when Erikson’s theory claims that an individual should only be able to fit into one at a time. Each stage doesn’t say much about the underlying causes of each developmental crisis which makes it difficult to decide when a person “fails” or “passes” a stage. Overall, Erikson’s theory has a severe lack of scientific support making it tough to be an accurate
Participants …show more content…
The 6th stage is the intimacy versus isolation stage and from his interview, he has proven that he is currently in this stage. He was in a committed relationship during the interview and has his life goals focused around settling down and getting married with someone. One could tell from the interview that he has finally found someone that he could potentially spend the rest of his life with. He seems to be close to successfully completing this stage of Erikson’s psychosocial theory. Even though subject A fit the stage of development Erikson assigned him, subject B seems to be in between two stages. The stage that subject B should be in is the 7th stage of Erikson’s psychosocial theory, which is the generativity versus stagnation stage. In a way he does fit into this stage, he is the age that one should be when in this stage, has the priority of making his children strong and independent, and is focused on being productive at work. Subject B understood that now was his time to give back to society. Due to the divorce subject B had recently, he had to go back into the dating world which is why he also belong in the same stage subject A is in, the intimacy versus isolation stage. He was starting to date someone new, but could see himself married to her in the near …show more content…
From the evidence that was collected through the process of assigning a stage to each participant, Erikson’s theory wasn’t accurate. The first problem that arose was how subject B fit into two categories when Erikson’s theory claims that an individual should only be able to fit into one at a time. Each stage doesn’t say much about the underlying causes of each developmental crisis which makes it difficult to decide when a person “fails” or “passes” a stage. Overall, Erikson’s theory has a severe lack of scientific support making it tough to be an accurate