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Stage 6- Intimacy Vs. Isolation
Heidi (age 20) and Mark got married because, as a couple, they mutually decided to take the next step in their relationship and continue their life journey together. In Erikson's fifth stage, intimacy versus isolation, the issue is understanding who you are, making long-term commitments, and becoming emotionally available to all relationships. Alternatively, you can choose isolation and withdraw emotionally from relationships and people. -
stage 7 Generativity Vs. Stagnation
Heidi has decided to invest time into her children's extracurricular activities and get involved with charities to improve her town. Erikson's seventh stage, generativity versus stagnation, is a desire to create or nurture things by parenting children or making positive changes that will benefit others, contributing to society (generativity), or the feeling of failure to find a way to contribute to society and can feel stagnant or disconnected (stagnation) -
stage 8 -Ego Integrity Vs. Despair
Willma died with her daughters and grandchildren by her side. She had some regrets but more fulfillment in the family she had built and surrounded her in her last moments. Erikson's eight-stage integrity versus despair is being forced to face what one has done in one's life, comparing yourself to society, feeling content and satisfied with what you have contributed (ego integrity), and realizing regrets and a desire to change and reconcile things in one's life but knowing its too late.(despair)