Erikson's Identity Versus Role Confusion Stage

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My Experience with Erikson's Identity vs. Role Confusion Stage Erik Erikson made himself famous by studying and describing psychological growth from infancy through old age. From this we were able to understand how to teach and instruct every level of education from preschool through adult education and it portrayed how people develop psychologically through understanding and dealing with everyday experiences. One of Erikson's stages of psychological development is his identity versus role confusion stage, which is described in ages twelve through eighteen or in easier terms, the middle school through high school years. In this stage, it is important for a teenager to develop the roles and skills that will prepare ones’ self to take a meaningful place in adult society. It is from this that one will find him or herself forming an identity, knowing who they are, or being stuck in role confusion and not being able to establish solidity in their lives. For me, I was fortunate enough to establish an identity in Erikson’s identity versus role confusion stage and it affected how I grew to learn throughout secondary education and how it is affecting how I live my life in the present. I remember my first day of middle…show more content…
It was the challenges that I faced during these years that allowed me go to college and want to succeed as a human being. I took the positives like being a leader, making people laugh, and being responsible and continued to use them in my life and took the negatives like being shy around upperclassmen and new faces and continued to work on them to help form a more productive identity. I was very grateful to be able to find my identity during Erikson’s stage and stay clear of role confusion and with that, I am able to truly be the man that I want to

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