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Erikson's Eight Stages Of Psychosocial Development

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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

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