STAGES OF PSYCHOSOCIAL

DEVELOPMENT
Erik Homburger Erikson’s
Theory Of Personal and Social Development

 Human more efflorescent

in psychosocial stages
than psychosexual stages
 Human pass through eight
psychosocial as long as In
their live
 Each stage is characterized
by a psychosocial
challenge or crisis that
must be resolved
Table 1. Erikson’s stages of personal and social development

Erik Homburger Erikson’s

Stages of Personal and Social Development

8 - Integrity vs. despair

7 - Generativity vs. stagnation
6 - Intimacy vs. isolation
5 - Identity vs. identity confusion
4 - Industry vs. inferiority
3 - Initiative vs. guilt
2 - Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
1 - Trust vs. mistrust
Table 1. Erikson’s stages of personal and social development
Positive & Negative Of Erikson’s
Theory Of Personal and Social Development
Positive :
1. Erikson’s theory emphasize the individual`s awareness for adaptable
with social effect.
2. Erikson’s theory emphasize the role of the environment both in causing
the crises and in determining how they will be resolved.
3. Erikson’s theory more complex because his theory was adopted by insting
freud theory, but erikson didn’t focus of sex as underlying reason of
human.
4. Erikson viewed the ego as an autonomous personality structure and
focusing on the quality of the ego that appears at each development
period
5. Erikson’s theory emphasize that the changes of the each development
stage is very important, so that individuals trying to get through.
Positive & Negative Of Erikson’s
Theory Of Personal and Social Development

Negative :
1. Erikson’s theory does not explain how or why individuals progress
from one stage to another
2. Erikson’s theory is difficult to defined through research
3. Erikson’s theory is more agreement for boys than girls, and more
attention given while infancy and early childhood than adulthood.
4. Not all people have the same case in phase and at the same time.