Before revision: 'Erikson's hypothesis that maturity involves working through a conflict between integrity and despair over past accomplishments' has received some empirical support: on one measure, 'the resolution of past life stages was more predictive of ego integrity than were other personality variables'.Matt Jarvis, Psychodynamic Psychology (2004) p. 155 Analogues Gail Sheehy termed the later stage of 'Second Adulthood...Age of Integrity (65-85+)'.Gail Sheehy, New Passages (London 19960 p. 14 The ninth of Loevinger's stages of ego development was the ' Integrated Stage...and ego integrity versus despair are probably Erikson's version of the Integrated Stage'.Jane Loevinger, Ego Development (London 1976) p. 26 and p. 78
After revision: 'Erikson's hypothesis that maturity involves working through a conflict between integrity and despair over past accomplishments' has received some empirical support: on one measure, 'the resolution of past life stages was more predictive of ego integrity than were other personality variables'.Matt Jarvis, Psychodynamic Psychology (2004) p. 155 Analogues Gail Sheehy termed the later stage of 'Second Adulthood...Age of Integrity (65-85+)'.Gail Sheehy, New Passages (London 19960 p. 14 The ninth of Loevinger's stages of ego development was the ' Integrated Stage...and ego integrity versus despair are probably Erikson's version of the Integrated Stage'.Jane Loevinger, Ego Development (London 1976) p. 26 and p. 78.