The Developing Person Through The Life Span Analysis

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(Beaumont & Pratt, 2011). Berger, Kathleen Stassen (2014-05-12). The Developing Person Through the Life Span, Ninth Edition (Page 632). Worth Publishers. Kindle Edition. Beaumont, Sherry L. and Pratt, Michael M.(2011). Identity processing styles and psychosocial balance during early and middle adulthood: The role of identity in intimacy and generativity. Journal of Adult Development, 18(4), 172–183. doi:10.1007/s10804-011-9125-z Berger, Kathleen Stassen (2014-05-12). The Developing Person Through the Life Span, Ninth Edition (Page R-5). Worth Publishers. Kindle Edition. The participants are 295 men and women from the Northern region of British Columbia, Canada. The hypothesis was a model that illustrates support for both direct and indirect …show more content…

She talks about the researcher Erikson first, but barely talks about him in the textbook and describing some thoughts he had about adulthood later on after the quote so you would have to read on more to learn more about him and she only explains a few brief topics about him and end up researching who this very important person is on the internet and in the library about books all about him and what he’s done. She also wrote in the quote about how he adulthood. She never explains why he started to see adulthood the way he does. My question for her is why he’s even thinking about adulthood when you could be thinking about plenty of other things. She goes on about how adulthood for him is like an extension to the search for identity through investigating intimacy and generativity. She then states that she confirms it by current research. Another question arises which is what the current research that she is talking about is. She never explains what the current research is or what it’s even about. I read about the research and understand it clearly, but most people would read this and question what the current research is and what Erikson was thinking because they don’t have a clue about the research that was done within this quote. Berger never talks about how the

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