3.6b - Social-Emotional Development Across the Lifespan: Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood, and Adulthood

identity

our sense of self; adolescent’s task to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles (Erikson)

social identity

part of an individual’s self-concept of membership/belonging in social groups (race, gender, ethnicity, religion, social class, team)

Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development

• Infancy (to 1yr)

  • trust and mistrust

  • develop trust

• Toddlerhood (1-3yr)

  • Autonomy, doubt/shame

  • learn to do things for themselves, or doubt their abilities

• Preschool (3-6yr)

  • initiative and guilt

  • initiate tasks/carry out plans, or feel guilty about being independent

• Elementary school (6yr to puberty)

  • competence (industry) and inferiority

  • learn to apply themselves to tasks, or feel inferior

• Adolescence (teens-20s)

  • identity and role confusion

  • refine sense of self, or be confused on who they are

• Young adulthood (20s-early 40s)

  • intimacy and isolation

  • form close relationships/intimacy, or feel socially isolated

• Middle adulthood (40s-60s)

  • generativity and stagnation

  • discover sense of contributing to the world (family/work), or feel lack of purpose

• Late adulthood (late 60s and up)

  • Integrity and despair

  • reflect on lives, feel satisfied or like failure

intimacy

ability to form close, loving relationships (focus in young adulthood) (Erikson)

emerging adulthood

18-mid 20s, after adolescence but before full independence as an adult

in prosperous Western culture

social clock

culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement