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Infancy- Leta Hollingworth is Born
Leta Stetter Hollingworth was born to Margaret Elinor Danley and John George Stetter as the oldest of what will be three girls. Sensorimotor stage of cognitve development learning coordination of senses and motor skills -
Childhood- Mother dies and Father Leaves
Leta's mother passes away during childbirth of her third daughter and their father abandons the family leaving her and her sisters to be raised by their grandparents. This would have affected Leta's socioemotional development losing both parents is a traumatic event to experience so young. These events could have also affected the initiative vs. guilt stage as Leta may have had to grow up quicker and take more initiative to help take care of her siblings and take on too much as a young child. -
Childhood- Leta's Father returns
Leta's father returns when Leta is twelve years old. He comes to take her and her children and forces them to move in with him and his new wife. There is emotional abuse and alcoholism that occurs during this time within the household. This would very likely affect the identity vs. inferiority stage as if emotional abuse is occurring self-confidence may be heavily put down, resulting in feelings of inferiority and not being good enough; socio-emotional development. -
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Adolescence- Leta Leaves For College
Leta escapes home after she graduates high school, at the age of sixteen she begins studying writing and literature at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She earns her degree in literature and a teaching certificate. Socio-emotional development identity vs. confusion. Figuring out where she is in the world and what she wants to do with her life. Especially figuring out who she is without being in the household environment she was in before. -
Early Adulthood- Leta Gets Married
Leta marries Harry Levi Hollingworth, they had been dating since Leta was a sophomore in college. Socio-emotional stage; intimacy vs. isolation she finds someone whom she has an intimate relationship with instead of feeling isolated from others. -
Early Adulthood- Leta goes Back to School
Unable to teach as a married woman Leta returns to school to earn her master's in education and gets a job administering intelligence tests. She continued her studies in psychology as well and earned her Ph.D. in 1916, took a job at Columbia's teacher college. Identity vs. Identity confusion; finding what she is passionate about and interesting in instead of following a path she doesn't neccessarily want to go on. -
Middle Adulthood- Leta focuses on Child Psychology
Leta's interests began to shift to the study of children especially children who were considered to be gifted. When she worked giving intelligence tests she had become aware of how the education system has largely failed these gifted students and did not give them the tools they needed to thrive in a school setting. Socio-emotional stage; generativity vs. stagnation contributes these findings to society and helps these students to be able to succeed where many others had failed them. -
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Middle-Late Adulthood- Leta's Published Works
Leta made large contributions to the psychology community through the studies she did and through the works that she published. She published the first book on gifted children as well as taught the first college course on gifted children. Socio-emotional stage; generativity vs. stagnation Leta contributed so greatly to these gifted children and wanted them to be able to succeed in life and she gave parents and teachers the tools to be able to support them in the classroom as well as at home. -
Leta Passes Away
Leta passes away from abdominal cancer.