PSYC 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Record Linkage, Stepfamily, Identity Formation
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Research on identity began a number of years ago when we were concerned with it primarily as a stage-specific crisis of late adolescence, the period in the life cycle that erikson had designated as crucial for identity development. Now, searchers have considered the development of identity throughout the stages of adulthood. Erikson proposed that each psychosocial period, or stage, has both precursors as well as successors, so there is an identity issue at each life cycle period following late adolescence, in addition to the main issues of those periods. Adult psychosocial stages following late adolescence: similar to the measures of identity, these follow a status paradigm, although here they refer to different positions on intimacy, generativity, and. The status paradigm refers to specifying midpoints or alternative resolutions to psychosocial crises, in addition to the polar alternatives described by erikson. They asked to describe their experiences in their own words.
