The word personality" has many definitions. Personality and the mind are known to some people as "unpredictable." Many have tried to crack its secrets by coming up with various theories. Most people would define personality as an individual's character, or what makes one unique, consisting of a set of characteristics known as traits. This is mostly true, but the proper definition is: personality is an individual's unique pattern of thoughts and behaviors that persist over time and across situations. I believe that the two personality development theories of birth order and Erikson's stages of psychosocial development best describe how the following personality traits developed in me through various socializing agents: competitive, aggressive, problem-solver and critical. Both theories give a very logical explanation to how my personality traits developed. .
The birth order theory best describes how the personality traits of competitiveness, aggressiveness and critical thinking developed. The birth order theory, as its name shows, focuses on a pattern of traits that develop for a child, based on its order of birth, ie, the first-born child is supposed to be responsible, dependable, competitive etc, due to the fact that siblings born after the firstborn "dethrone" him or her, the siblings halve almost everything the firstborn has, the parents attention, love and so on. The middle child/children is/are speculated to develop these following personality traits: low self-esteem, peacekeeping abilities, independence, as the parents cannot afford to spend a lot of time with the middle child. The youngest child is normally a follower, laid-back, rebellious and liberal. This is because the parents spend even less attention to the youngest child than the middle one, and hence, he/she receives very little discipline, but follows others as the rest of the members of the family boss him/her around.
According to Erikson, humans develop throughout their life span, while Freud said that our personality is shaped by the age of five. Erikson believed that childhood is very important in personality development. ... But Erikson rejected Freud's attempt to describe personality solely on the basis of sexuality. ... Erikson's fourth stage, Industry vs. ... Erikson's prior four stages add to the fifth stage, Identity vs. ...
Erik Erikson studied first with Sigmund Freud in Austria. ... In his theory Erikson acknowledged eight separate phases of personality development. ... Erikson proposes the adolescent must join together the healthy resolutions of all earlier challenges. ... Stage 6: Early Adult Crisis: Intimacy vs. ... Stage 7: Middle Adulthood Crisis: Generativity vs. ...
Freud's studies have impacted our understanding of personality development. ... The child would have this unrealistic positive personality. ... Stage 2 It is possible to point out common elements between Freud and Erikson's ideas about the second development stage. ... Stage 3 In the third stage both Freud and Erikson have disagreed about potty training. ... Stage 4 As though the world had entered a time machine, Freud's ideas about the growth process of children seemed primitive compared to Erikson's thoughts. ...
Barker Through the Eyes of Erikson Erik Erikson developed a psychological on our social development that is divided into eight stages. By looking at these stages closely I have found that I have gone through the first four and I am going through the fifth stage. In the first stage of development, trust vs. mistrust, I leaned more towards mistrust. ... I think this is apparent in my personality today. ... I am currently going through the identity vs. diffusion stage. ...
Theorists like Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson focus on motivational drives and instincts that leads children to develop through different stages. ... Freud and Erikson not only stress the importance of parenting, but also believe that children go through a series of developmental stages. ... Erikson (cited, Chapman, 1996) places a great deal of emphasise on the development of trust in these early stages. ... Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development differs significantly from Freud and Erikson's theory of psycho-sexual and psycho-social stages. ... Unlike Freud and Erikson, who...
Each stage within Erikson's model explains the development of an individual from birth to old age and includes psychosocial issues that may predict difficulties for later stages (Greene,2012). ... Throughout the eight stages of man, Erikson had stressed that one stage of development builds on the success of previous stages and that each stage is distinguished by particular characteristics which can be demonstrated in Appendix A. Like Freud, Erikson assumed that a "crisis" occurred at each developmental stage (Kroger, 2004). ... He argued that the successful completion of each stage crisi...
The well-used term "identity crisis," originates from Erik Erikson's fifth stage, identity versus confusion, in his eight stages of epigenetic personality development. ... Developmental psychologist, James Marcia (1994, 2006), has extended on Erikson's stage five theory by developing his ego identity status paradigm. His model has been widely used as a means to assess Erikson's ego identity formation theory, which has received much criticism because of its lack of scientific ground. ... This suggests that a large proportion of adolescents do not complete the identity format...
Also included were analyses of Maxim Gorkiy, and Adolph Hitler, a discussion of the "American Personality", and the basic outline of his version of the Freudian theory. ... Erikson created these stages by observing. ... As we know, Erikson is most famous for his work in refining and expanding Freud's theory of stages. ... The greatest innovation Erikson made was to make eight stages of development as opposed to Freud's five. Erikson elaborated Freud's genital stage into adolescence plus three stages of adulthood. ...
Also included were analyses of Maxim Gorkiy, and Adolph Hitler, a discussion of the "American Personality", and the basic outline of his version of the Freudian theory. ... Erikson created these stages by observing. ... As we know, Erikson is most famous for his work in refining and expanding Freud's theory of stages. ... The greatest innovation Erikson made was to make eight stages of development as opposed to Freud's five. Erikson elaborated Freud's genital stage into adolescence plus three stages of adulthood. ...
