Saturday, July 12, 2014

8. Ego integrity verses despair – (60 years and above):



In this phase of development, adults look back their life and evaluate its meaning. They may think “whether their life was fulfilling?” or “did they have spends their life in the way they wanted it to be?” according to Fleming (2004), life gives lot of choices, however no one be able to choose all the choices. They have to be chose some of them they thinks it will be best. As “no one is perfect”, human tends to do mistakes and learn from those. “To be fulfilled does not mean the one has led a perfect life” Fleming (2004). However, if the person spends his life meaningfully, then he have experienced integrity, a sense of completeness and fulfillment but those who have not achieved positive outcomes from their life may experience despair in this stage of life (Passer & Smith, 2007).

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