Erik Erikson came up with eight stages of psychosocial development. These eight stages are stages that one passes through from infancy to late adulthood and is characterized by a psychosocial crisis of two conflicting forces. It is known that Erik Erikson’s fifth and sixth stages are the two of the highest hurdles to jump in life. The fifth stage occurs during adolescence and its psychosocial crisis is identity vs. role confusion. The sixth stage occurs in early adulthood and contains the psychosocial crisis of intimacy vs. isolation. The fifth stage is definitely a hard hurdle to overcome because it is hard to determine who you are. It is arduous especially during high school when you have people judging you since you aren’t following what is considered to be normal and once you know who you are, it's harder to identify who you can be. The fifth stage also is hard because during high school everyone is put under the pressure to maintain good grades for college so you can become whatever you want to be. However, even determining what you want to be for the rest of …show more content…
For example, one may not want to deal with relationships due to rejection, prior experiences with them, or simply enjoying the freedom that comes with being out of a relationship. However, these days most people do not enjoy being out of a relationship because they’re afraid to be alone, don’t want to be alone, or just to pass time which are all immature reasons. Therefore, I believe that it is hard to jump over this hurdle just in high school alone. This hurdle is more approachable once you graduate college or about that same time frame. Jumping into relationships is tricky because there is always emotional aspects that we have to consider. Such as what if it doesn’t work out, or a tragedy happens. Therefore, I believe that this stage is better off the years after high school and not during high
I would say that I came out of this stage successfully because I am not in fear of the world. My parents took care of all of my needs as I was a baby, they made sure I had food, clothes, love and everything that a baby needs, so now I feel that I can trust people, and that there is no need for me to fear the world or the people around me.
Hannah Bailey is a young, wild, and carefree teenager from a small town called Warsaw, Indiana. She attends Warsaw Community High School and she likes music, art, and photography. Majority of the students at the school are Caucasian and most of them are in cliques, relationships, and are somewhat popular. People call Hannah weird and say that she does not fit in with everyone. She wants to go to college in California to study film. Hannah lives with her grandmother because her mother suffers from depression and is not in the home, and her father works out of town in Ohio. Hannah’s boyfriend, Joel, is also a big part of her life. She spends a lot of her time with him. For Hannah, Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory can be used to help explain her adolescent life.
In ‘Abolish high school’ by Rebecca solnit, she writes “High school is often considered a definitive American experience, in two senses: an experience that nearly everyone shares, and one that can define who you are, for better or worse, for the rest of your life.” which means high school isn’t wonderful for many people, it has a lot of challenges for teens, maybe some of them ‘kill’ by pressure and challenges, it would affect their rest of life. The high school is not a wonderful place for everyone. People should skip it and escaped it that you would don’t be suffered by it. However I disagree with her, because I believe high school is a indispensable place for students. It is a place for students, they can find a great relationship and an unexceptionable place to learn. On the other hand, I believe the high school is the key to definitive teens who they are in an great way. For example, Teachers would shape everyone’s identity, make you strong to face challenges, and open child’s heart. For example, in my childhood, when I lived with my parents, I was happy to learn, because my parents always encourage me to learn. Also, they want me learn from mistake, because It is a way to learn. They want me to be someone. However my parents left me at 12 age, they have to work more hard to support this home. I can’t focus on learning, I was playing video games every day, because I think I was ‘release’ from my parents. I have no ideas about my future. There is no one like my parents to guide me , I feel alone and confuses. Until I was be a part of high school.The high school make me stronger and hopeful. Teachers guide me walk on the right way again, they talk to me about future and how wonderful thing would happen in high school. I
Ah, high school. The only place where people can see a person’s future change in an instant. Just like pages in the book no human has ever read and remembered, what experiences we had in high school can never be replicated. Our minds change in high school and because of these changes we only experience what we interpret as good and bad never truly knowing what could have been if we had only changed one word in a sentence or the facial expressions we made. This is true not in just high school but in adult life itself.
The fifth stage being the identity vs role confusion around 12-18 years I guess you can say were my toughest years. During this time, especially when I was finishing high school, I felt like my parents failed me by pulling me away from my friends right before graduation by moving to Wisconsin. I believe this really affected me. Amid youth the move from adolescence to adulthood is generally critical. This is where I was barely starting to discover who I was and I just wanted to fit in with society and just be around all my friends. As Erickson would say this is the stage were adolescences are winding up noticeably more self-sufficient, and start to take a gander at the future as far as vocation, connections, families, lodging, and so on. The individual needs to have a place with a public and fit in. The sixth stage Intimacy vs. Isolation being the stage that I am in now, I guess you can say I turned out to be alright. Even though it has taken me longer to get to where I should’ve been many years ago I am happy to know I am reaching those goals now little by
Erik Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1902. Because his mother was Jewish and his father was not, he was often bullied in school. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, so his Jewish peers mocked him for standing out and being different, and his peers at school teased him simply for being Jewish. His own internal conflict with his identity sparked his interest in identity formation and development. Although he never actually received a degree in medicine or psychology, he became friends with Anna Freud who helped him study psychoanalysis. Erikson supported and was influenced by many of Sigmund Freud’s ideas. Freud had a theory on development, he called it the 5 stages of psychosexual development, this is one of the theories that Erikson
My friend Emma and I are finally stepping into high school as freshman’s, for me it was terrifying. All of the potential failures you have placed before you, all the closed doors your too afraid to open, because you don’t know what’s behind it because this place determines you whole life if you fail here you fail in life. In 4 years I would have to leave my home to go find another, leave my parents to start my own life. Most people found it existing
According to Erikson’s Nine Stages of Psychosocial Development, “Trust vs. Mistrust,” trust and, or, mistrust is experienced from as young as infancy. I first experienced trust when I was just an infant. Since my birth, my parents have been entrepreneurs, specializing in home decorations and home improvement. Where ever my parents went, I went, which is the reason why I found trust in them. I always knew that I would be right by my parents side at all times. Both parents pulled an equal amount of responsibility while raising me and my other four siblings, with each of us being two years apart. As claimed by my parents, I started walking at only five months and I did not crawl on my knees, as babies usually do, for a long. My parents also
In your initial post, identify the original life story element you intend to change and explain how you intend to change it. Use Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development to explain Mila’s stage of development at the time this change takes place and address how the change affects Mila’s psychological development.
When I initially began High School I thought internally, this is it, this is the point at which my life changes, this is where school work gets harder, classes get harder, the sports become more advanced, and my evaluations in High School are going to reflect my employment, and universities later on, and everything in my life has finally become a hectic roller coaster. But I know that High School is like a stream because along the way you'll find some trash, go over some harsh spots, discover a whirlpool or two, stagnate for a bit, lastly get to the end of the adventure and acknowledge you have had an awesome ride. I know this without a doubt in light of the reality that back in middle school/ junior high I got awful grades I kept saying to myself every time, that I have to stay focused and get my grades up because my grades in my previous years would follow me through high school. In middle school it was hard for me to remain centered and complete my work, and get decent grades. I had to keep my mind like a sponge and absorb all the details I could in every class.
Developmental psychologist Erik Erikson changed the way that people viewed the psychosocial development in humans throughout their lifespan. Using the foundation provided by Freud’s psychosexual stages, he modified the concepts to where they demonstrated external impacts on development as well as making it more about emotional conflicts than necessarily physical drives. This eight-stage theory is sequential, and requires the person to overcome conflicts in each stage to become a productive member of society (https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/boundless-psychology-textbook/human-development-14/theories-of-human-development-70/erikson-s-stages-of-psychosocial-development-269-12804/). These stages are: trust versus mistrust, autonomy versus shame, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, identity versus role confusion, intimacy versus isolation, generativity versus stagnation, and integrity versus despair.
Every person has their own identity that makes them who they are today as a person. People also have different personality traits that make every person different from each other in their own way. Erik Erikson came up with the Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development for people to figure out how to adjust their own life. Also, Erik Erickson’s Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development helps us figure out who we are as a person. If there is a crisis in our life, then Erik Erickson’s Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development will help us figure out how to solve the issue.
I am currently 18 years old and have lived through Erikson’s fifth stage in psychosocial development, Identity vs. Role Confusion. I wasn’t always sure about what career path I wanted to take and this frightened me. I felt confused and alone, until I learned that this was a normal stage in life that many people went through. Discovering Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development helps me feel more self-assured in the challenges I’ll face as I grow
Adolescence is the fifth stage in Erikson's psychosocial development theory. It is posited to last from ages 12 to 18, and the basic conflict inherent in the adolescent stage, which the person must resolve, is between identity and role confusion. This conflict between identity and role confusion especially plays itself out in peer relationships, but the teenager also navigates through identity and role confusion with relationships in the family unit. Identity and role confusion issues can arise with sexuality, as well as worldviews.
However, graduating elementary isn’t the end, it just means that we just finished a chapter of our lives or the first novel of our trilogy. The next step, which is being an actual adolescent is the second novel of our lives, it will be a new beginning we somehow need to surmount. A more complicated, difficult- looking life, which actually isn’t. Next year, when we are going for our first day of high school, it’s a bigger world. We’ll meet new people with different knowledge, doings, ethnicity, religion, race, languages and more. Personally, even I, who other people around me absolutely believe is ready for high school, think of such worries like: What if I don’t get my locker open in time? What if I can’t even open my locker? What if I get influenced badly in high school? What if I am late in the first day of school? What if, what if , what if. A bunch of what if’s that just restrains us from being confident and proud of ourselves. Don’t worry, just remember that the Holy Spirit dwells in your body and that it’ll help you down the road.