Erikson

Trust vs Mistrust

Infancy

Autonomy vs Shame and doubt

Toddler

Initiative vs Guilt

Preschool

Industry vs inferiority

School age

Identity vs Role confusion

Adolescence

Intimacy vs Isolation

Young adult

Generativity vs Stagnation

Middle adult

Ego Integrity vs Despair

Older adult

Trust vs Mistrust

Established when babies receive warmth, touch, and love

Emotional attachment occurs in this stage

Autonomy vs Shame and doubt

Expressed by growing self control, wanting to choose and decide for self

Encouraged by permitting reasonable free choice and not forcing or shaming

Initiative vs Guilt

New sense of purpose expressed through believe play

Promote initiative, nuture ideas for positive self-concept

Industry vs Inferiority

Sense of capacity to work and play with others developed through praise and successes

Develops through negative experiences in working and playing with others

Identity vs Role confusion

Need to answer questions “who am i?” and “what is my place in society?”

Must build consistent identity from self perceptions and relationships with others, self chosen values, and vocational goals

Intimacy vs Isolation

Increased sense of competency/self-esteem

Learns to develop reciprocal intimate relationships (requires mutual trust)

Generativity vs Stagnation

Sense of productivity, creativity, desire to care for others

Lack of accomplishment, self-absorption

Ego integrity vs Despair

Successful (honest acceptance of life “at peace”)

Unsuccessful: fear of death (feeling that life was “lived in vain")