Erikson's Phychosocial Theory

“There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.” And no matter who you are and what you do, I believe that everyone will go through stages in their life. Erik Erikson was a famous psychologist in the twentieth – century, where he developed “Psychosocial stages”. Erikson’s theories centered on issues that were met on specific ages in someone’s life. Love, care, and tender is critical and many parents do not realize how much nurturing for a child is very important. Erik Erikson’s developmental theory is the development of a person’s identity. Erikson states, “The conscience sense of self that is developed through social interaction.” Erik Erikson was a psychoanalyst who believed that, on an “unconscious level, we

Erikson’s theories marked an important change in thinking about personality; “his psychosocial theory looked at how social influences contributed to personality throughout the entire lifespan. Erikson expanded on psychoanalytic theory by exploring development throughout the life, including events of childhood, adulthood and old age.” As it mentions in the Psychology Core Concepts textbook. Erik Erikson believed that “individual development takes place in a social context.” According to Erikson, as human beings age, we go through eight different stages to mature. Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, is a theory that describes stages in which a human being should pass as he or she are going through life. Erik describes each of the stages to have a positive and a negative

Guilt, is during the preschool years, where the children begin to control over the world through direct social interactions. The children who are successful throughout this stage feel capable and are able to lead others. The ones who fail in this stage, their skills are left with guilt and self- doubt, according to Erikson’s theory. The fourth stage of Erikson’s theory, Industry vs. Inferiority, covers the age of five years old to eleven years old, which is the early school years. Children who receive support from their teachers or parents, develop a feeling of belief in their skills. The children who receive less encouragement from parents and teachers have a lack of “self- confidence,” and begin to have feelings of a failure. The fifth stage of Erikson’s theory, Identity vs. Confusion, is during adolescence and he or she develops their independence. The children who receive the proper “reinforcement” through family, “will emerge from this stage with a strong sense of self as a person and intellectual skills” as mentioned in the textbook of, Psychology Core Concepts. Those who fail, have an unclear sense of self and might be confused about themselves and his or her