What’s My Conflict
This is the conflict that happens when a person has reached their adolescent years.
Identity vs. Role Confusion
This stage focuses on contributing to younger people through child rearing, childcare, or other productive work.
Generativity vs. Stagnation
Someone who is working through Initiative vs. guilt will hopefully gain this strengthen.
Purpose
This is how individuals achieve integrity as older adult.
By accepting their life and its experiences, both successes and failures
This is what a newborn might develop if they fail to resolve the trust vs. mistrust conflict successfully.
A sense of fear and insecurity about the world
This is the conflict that happens when someone is first born.
Basic Trust vs. Mistrust
This stage focuses on learning basic skills and working with others
Industry vs. Inferiority
Someone who in the second stage of like will be working to gain this strength
Will
This is how individuals demonstrate generativity during middle adulthood.
By contributing to society through raising children, work, and community involvement
This might result from failing to achieve intimacy as a young adult.
A sense of isolation and loneliness
People who range from 18-40 years old will go through this stage.
Intimacy vs. Isolation
This stage focuses on developing the ability to try new things and to handle failure.
Initiative vs. Guilt
Someone looking for love might be in this crisis.
Intimacy vs. Isolation
This is essential for achieving intimacy in young adulthood.
Forming close, committed relationships with others
This can lead to feelings of inferiority during this stage.
Repeated failure and negative comparisons to other
While some is 1-3 years old, they may be entering and go through this conflict?
Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt
This stage wants to develop a sense that the world is a safe, “good place".
Basic Trust vs. Mistrust
Someone in the last stage of life will work on this strength?
Wisdom
This is how children ages 1-3 demonstrate initiative.
By planning activities, making up games, and leading others
This can result from overprotection or criticism while someone is ages 1 through 3?
A sense of shame and doubt in their abilities
This is the conflict that happens when a person is has reached the last stage of the theory.
Integrity vs. Despair
Someone in this stage wants to commit to another in a loving relationship.
Intimacy vs. Isolation
Someone who is just born will hopefully gain this virtue or strength.
Hope
This is how children express autonomy during early childhood.
By making choices and asserting independence
This might cause a sense of despair in late adulthood.
Regret over missed opportunities and a feeling that life has been wasted