Erikson's Theories Of Personality Analysis

On the other hand, Erikson believes that our behaviours are motivated by our sense of competency. We gather a sense of competency through social interactions which are depicted through each of Erikson’s eight psychosocial stages. The crisis in each stage needs to be mastered in order to develop our personality that can result in acquiring an ego quality such as hope or will (Dunkel & Sefcek, 2009). As Erikson explained, failure to master a stage can affect the personality development in the subsequent stages, implying the importance mastery of each crisis. The motivation for mastery at each stage is our desire for a sense of competency (Westermeyer, 2004), hence it is also the motivator for our behaviour.
Lastly, Adler introduced that the motivators

In an academic journal by Oschman and Pressman (2014), attempts to give support to the unconscious mind by proposing various methods to connect the unconscious mind as being a result of biological structures such as through the structure of the neurons that allows bidirectional transference of information, while incorporating concepts from quantum physics, to explain the fastness of information flow, resulting in the unconscious mind. The id, ego, and superego from Freud’s structure of personality were validated using Eysenck’s trait personality in the study done by Cartwright and DeBruin (2010) through subject imagery. It was found that the id and superego are positively and significantly correlated with neuroticism while no correlation was found for ego. The study prompted that more research needs to be done to understand how the ego exerts behavioural control, again encouraging researches to validate Freud’s approach to understanding

In a study by Hearn et al. (2012), they investigated the characteristics of people in the final stage, Integrity versus Despair. They hypothesised the scores of integrated people and despairing people with multiple scales and proposing correlations between the scores and integrated and despairing individuals. From their results, they found that integrated people scored highest for Openness to Experience, where a significantly strong relationship was found between integrated individuals with openness. Despairing people scored the lowest on the same scale and had a significant negative correlation with openness. In a longitudinal study by Westermeyer (2004), he investigated the predictors of adults reaching the Generativity stage and found significant correlations from warm family environment, good peer social adjustment, and troubled parental discipline with one’s likelihood of reaching the Generativity stage. In a study by Perry and Despland (2011), motivations from each psychosocial stage were listed as wishes and fears among personality disorders and a questionnaire was to be filled by the subjects which consisted of questions regarding competency on various behaviours. It was found that the personality disorders were majorly related to wishes and fears in the first and second stage of the psychosocial stages, especially Borderline