Erikson's Eight Stages Of Development

There are total of eight stages to explain the stages for Erikson. The ideal of the theology by Erikson was by the inspiration from Sigmund Freud that helped him with his theory. Erikson added to Freudian thoughts by concentration on the adaptive and creative characteristic for ego. This expanded the notion for stages of personality development that is included to entire the lifespan. The ego developed successful resolving some crises distinctly to social in society. This involves a sense of trust in others, develops a sense of individuality into society that and helps the next generation prepare for the future
The first stage is about the trust factor (trust vs mistrust). In addition is success in the stage of leading hope. This stage starts …show more content…
The definition of competency is the ability to do something successfully or efficiently. The school age of the child is established, goes all the way up to pre teen age. This becomes heavily stage of difficult revolving around the age of school becomes the child’s heaviest influence. From their peers to teachers, their opinion seems to hold more weight over their guardian teaching for the most part. The subject was around the topic of industry vs inferiority. The child’s peer group gain greater significance and become the major source to child’s self esteem. The child will feel the need to win approval of demonstrating the specific competencies valued by society, and development of sense of pride to their …show more content…
The significance of a person finding themselves is quite difficult in this stage far as identifying of how they look, how they’re perceived by others and how they feel about things. In today’s society sexuality seems to be the biggest difficulty for people, finding out what they like comes with a lot of consequences also, from varying opinion of people. People become more independent, and begin looking at the future at terms of career, relationships, families, housing, etc. The individual desires to belong into a society acceptance. Erikson believe the adolescent feels uncomfortable about their body for a long time, as they adapt and “grow into” the changes. Success becomes important to the individual at this stage that leads into the virtue of fidelity. Teenager explore opportunities for own identity based on the outcome to their explorations. Not establishing the sense of identity in society ("I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up") bring confusion. Role confusion adds the individual to be not sure about themselves or their placement in