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Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, as articulated in the second half of the 20th century by Erik Erikson in collaboration with Joan Erikson, [1] is a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory that identifies a series of eight stages that a healthy developing individual should pass through from infancy to late adulthood.
In medicine and the social sciences, a young adult is generally a person in the years following adolescence, sometimes with some overlap. [1] Definitions and opinions on what qualifies as a young adult vary, with works such as Erik Erikson's stages of human development significantly influencing the definition of the term; generally, the term is often used to refer to adults in approximately ...
1.2 Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial ... in 1995 Jeffery Arnett interviewed 300 young adults aged 18 to 29 on the topic of what they ... As adults age, their ...
1.5 Erik Erikson. 1.6 ... but the conceptual age of the infant must be considered when analyzing the results. ... Children ages 6–13 and young adults performed a ...
Erik Erikson (b.1902) developed a psychosocial developmental theory, which was both influenced and built upon by Freud, which includes four childhood and four adult stages of life that capture the essence of personality during each period of development. [8]
" And as the lead of the Young adult (psychology) article states, the age that one is considered a young adult varies. Despite Erik Erikson's argument that young adulthood starts at age 20, most countries consider 18 to be the start of young adulthood, legally anyway. Flyer22 16:08, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
In many societies, those who reach a certain age (often 18, though this varies) are considered to have reached the age of majority and are legally regarded as adults who are responsible for their actions. People below this age are considered minors or children. A person below the age of majority may gain adult rights through legal emancipation.
According to Erikson, after establishing a personal identity in adolescence, young adults seek to form intense, usually romantic relationships with other people. [5] Common symptoms of a quarter-life crisis are often feelings of being "lost, scared, lonely or confused" about what steps to take in early adulthood. [6]