Erik Erikson’s Eight Stages of Development

In Erik Erikson's theory, he explained that at each stage the individual develops a positive or negative attitude. In the development stage, it either succeeds or fails. Regardless of whether we are prepared for them, every step will come to us. You can think of these phases as learning stages of crisis. You can succeed as long as you learn from the last crisis. Because of the development process, you can not go to the next stage by avoiding the first stage. The outcome of our lives depends on the way we choose to make progress at every stage of our lives.

Researcher Erik Erikson has developed eight development stages. The fifth phase of Ericsson's development is the confusion of identity and role that occurs between the ages of 13 and 15 (McLeod, 2008). At this stage, Erikson claims McLeod (2008) argues that "This is the main stage of development and children have to learn the role they play in adulthood" (paragraph 25). Violence by mass media such as games, sports and television seems to target vulnerable groups such as children and adolescents, but both of them are immature and tend to take dangerous behaviors.

In this article, the authors introduce some contributions from Erik Erikson's eight-step development theory and provide a prospect on the development of occupational behavior. First, he explained the theory of Ericsson 's eight life stages. In his view, the development of the basic meaning of initiatives, industry, identity, generation, and integrity seems to be particularly relevant to professional development behavior. This theory provides a framework for combining career development and global human development. In addition, Ericsson's theory recognizes the role of social and cultural factors in relation to life cycle development and provides a theoretical framework for integrating research results into sociology of occupational behavior. . The third contribution of Ericsson's theory is identity crisis and self-identity.