7.3 Socio-emotional Development

• Industry in socio-emotional development stage refers to a child’s involvement in situations where long, patient work is demanded of them.
• Inferiority in socio-emotional development stage is the feeling created when a child gets a feeling of failure when they cannot finish or master their school work.
• One’s self-concept is the knowledge about the self, such as beliefs regarding personality traits, physical characteristics, abilities, values, goals and roles.
• Having a healthy self-concept means that a child likes himself/herself, feels accepted by his/ her family and friends and believes that he/she can do well.
• Primary school children’s self-concept is influenced not only by their parents, but also by the growing number of people they begin to interact with, including teachers and classmates.
• From the Fourth Stage of Psychosocial Development by Erik Erikson, Industry vs Inferiority is the conflict between generations.