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Child Development: Erikson's Adolescent Stage

11 years and through end of adolescence

  • Struggle to develop ego identity (sense of inner sameness and continuity)

  • Preoccupation with appearance, hero worship, ideology

  • Group identity (peers) develops

  • Danger of role confusion, doubts about sexual and vocational identity

  • Psychosocial moratorium, astage between morality learned by the child and the ethics to be developed by the adult

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