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Autonomy Versus Shame and Doubt

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Psychosocial developmental stages; Erik Erikson’s psychosocial developmental stages; Erikson’s second stage of psychosocial development

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The following entry describes Erikson’s (1963, 1968) psychosocial developmental stage of Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt.

Introduction

Erik Erikson describes personality development as a sequence of stages that are ordered hierarchically and occur within an ever-expanding network of significant others in the individual’s environment. Erikson believed that his stages could be considered culturally universal – as individuals from all cultures are assumed to face the same inherent conflicts in psychosocial development (Crain 1980). Though Erikson uses psychoanalytic concepts as the foundation from which he delineates the ego’s progressive integration of an individual’s psychosexual experiences and the social world, Erikson’s stages also describe more general issues (Franz and White 2006). With his stage theory of psychosocial...

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  1. Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, USA

    Samantha Lewis

  2. University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, USA

    Steven Abell

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. Department of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Kevin Meehan

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Lewis, S., Abell, S. (2017). Autonomy Versus Shame and Doubt. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_570-1

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