PSYC 4070 Chapter : Chapter 14 PSYC 4070 Fall 2012
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Chapter 14 social & personality development in early. Says it is influenced by feelings of : independence, 2. Competence to confront task, work, 3. self-esteem, 4. relating well to others. Happiest times for young adults as self-reported: when they felt psychological needs rather than material needs were met. Thus, times of unhappiness: when psychological needs unfulfilled. Young adulthood is time of intimacy vs isolation. Intimacy vs isolation period of post-adolescence n2 early 30s that focuses on developing close relationships w/others. Erikson said intimacy encompasses several diff aspects selflessness, sexuality, deep devotion. Difficulty in this stage of forming intimacy results in loneliness, isolation, fear of relationships w/others. Sometimes people can"t form that kind of relationship: self-sabotage, feel loneliness, depression, and anxiety about that. If have typical growth and development, social world will expand in this part of life until old age because people"s life long friends start dying off.
