Identity Development in different life stages
Abstract:
This article is going to discuss the identity development the lifetime. Based on the Erik Erikson’s theory (1950), the psychosocial development has eight stages including infancy, early childhood, play age, school age, adolescence, young adult, adult hood and maturity. There are psychosocial crisis in each stage, which are trust and mistrust, autonomy and shame, initiative and guilt, industry and inferiority, ego identity and role confusion, intimacy and isolation, generatively and stagnation, and ego integrity and despair respectively. In this article, five stages of identity development, stage 2 to 6, which are early childhood and play age, school age, adolescence and young adult, …show more content…
He said people would develop conflict identity and role confusion. Children become independent and start to think about their future, human relationships, families, career and so on. And considering where they are belongs to the society and fit in. During this period, adolescent will explore their identity and try to find out who he or she is. Erikson claims that two identities, that sex and the occupation are involved. They eventually come up with two identity questions: “Who am I?” and “Where should I belong to?” (McAdams, Josselson, & Lieblich, 2006). Role confusion can cause people to have different experience and the personality formation, the individual point of views and the views from the others (Bosma et al., 1994). If the individual experience suspects the life meaning and the reason of the existence extremely, that can cause the person feeling confusion and getting lost. Therefore, this stage is the most important to form the …show more content…
I would listen to teachers and parents’ suggestions. For example, once they encouraged me to join a running race on the sports day, I felt more confident and wanted to show my strength to them. An other example, I used to be compared with my brother in the academic aspect, my parents always said I am not as clever as my brother, then I felt very inferior and doubted myself that am I too stupid or not work hard enough. In this stage, I did not think too much about self-identity, just depends on teachers and parents’ standard to be a good
Abstract:
This article is going to discuss the identity development the lifetime. Based on the Erik Erikson’s theory (1950), the psychosocial development has eight stages including infancy, early childhood, play age, school age, adolescence, young adult, adult hood and maturity. There are psychosocial crisis in each stage, which are trust and mistrust, autonomy and shame, initiative and guilt, industry and inferiority, ego identity and role confusion, intimacy and isolation, generatively and stagnation, and ego integrity and despair respectively. In this article, five stages of identity development, stage 2 to 6, which are early childhood and play age, school age, adolescence and young adult, …show more content…
He said people would develop conflict identity and role confusion. Children become independent and start to think about their future, human relationships, families, career and so on. And considering where they are belongs to the society and fit in. During this period, adolescent will explore their identity and try to find out who he or she is. Erikson claims that two identities, that sex and the occupation are involved. They eventually come up with two identity questions: “Who am I?” and “Where should I belong to?” (McAdams, Josselson, & Lieblich, 2006). Role confusion can cause people to have different experience and the personality formation, the individual point of views and the views from the others (Bosma et al., 1994). If the individual experience suspects the life meaning and the reason of the existence extremely, that can cause the person feeling confusion and getting lost. Therefore, this stage is the most important to form the …show more content…
I would listen to teachers and parents’ suggestions. For example, once they encouraged me to join a running race on the sports day, I felt more confident and wanted to show my strength to them. An other example, I used to be compared with my brother in the academic aspect, my parents always said I am not as clever as my brother, then I felt very inferior and doubted myself that am I too stupid or not work hard enough. In this stage, I did not think too much about self-identity, just depends on teachers and parents’ standard to be a good