Erikson's stages of psychosocial development

Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, as articulated in the second half of the 20th century by <a href="/facts/Erik_Erikson/JGvU080a">Erik Erikson</a> in collaboration with <a href="/facts/Joan_Erikson/3NmN3FTo">Joan Erikson</a>, is a comprehensive <a href="/facts/Psychoanalysis/gYCbGpPv">psychoanalytic</a> theory that identifies a series of eight <a href="/facts/Developmental_stage_theories/qV85rqo0">stages</a> that a healthy developing individual should pass through from <a href="/facts/Infant/gaEL1QL4">infancy</a> to late <a href="/facts/Adulthood/dojHcGa2">adulthood</a>.
According to Erikson's theory the results from each stage, whether positive or negative, influence the results of succeeding stages. Erikson published a book called <a href="/facts/Childhood_and_Society/S9FCXwBh">Childhood and Society</a> in 1950 that highlighted his research on the eight stages of psychosocial development. Erikson was originally influenced by Sigmund Freud's <a href="/facts/Psychosexual_development/uJDjlK7r">psychosexual</a> stages of development. He began by working with Freud's theories specifically, but as he began to dive deeper into biopsychosocial development and how other environmental factors affect human development, he soon progressed past Freud's theories and developed his own ideas. Erikson developed different substantial ways to create a theory about lifespan he theorized about the nature of personality development as it unfolds from birth through old age or death. He argued that the social experience was valuable throughout our life to each stage that can be recognizable by a conflict specifically as we encounter between the psychological needs and the surroundings of the social environment.
Erikson's stage theory characterizes an individual advancing through the eight life stages as a function of negotiating their biological and sociocultural forces. The two conflicting forces each have a <a href="/facts/Psychosocial/qKrrEQrD">psychosocial</a> crisis which characterizes the eight stages. If an individual does indeed successfully reconcile these forces (favoring the first mentioned attribute in the crisis), they emerge from the stage with the corresponding virtue. For example, if an infant enters into the toddler stage (autonomy vs. shame and doubt) with more trust than mistrust, they carry the virtue of hope into the remaining life stages. The stage challenges that are not successfully overcome may be expected to return as problems in the future. However, mastery of a stage is not required to advance to the next stage. In one study, subjects showed significant development as a result of organized activities.

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Erikson's stages of psychosocial development