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• Ten Basic Values


  • Self-Direction
  • Stimulation
  • Achievement
  • Hedonism
  • Power
  • Security
  • Conformity
  • Benevolence
  • Tradition
  • Universalism
• Self-Direction


  Independent thought and action; choosing, creating and exploring
• Stimulation


  Excitement and challenge in life
• Hedonism


  Pleasure and sensuous gratification for oneself
• Achievement


  Personal success through demonstrating competence according to social standards
• Power


  Social status and prestige, control or dominance over people and resources
• Security


  Safety, harmony, stability of society, of relationships and of self
• Conformity


  Restraint of actions and impulses that are likely to upset or harm others and violate social expectations or norms
• Tradition


  Respect, commitment, acceptance of the customs and ideas
• Benevolence


  Preserving and enhancing the welfare of those with whom one is in frequent personal contact (the 'in-group')
• Universalism


  Understanding, appreciation, tolerance, and protection for the welfare of all people and of nature
• Erikson's Eight Stages of Personality Development

  • Trust vs. Mistrust
  • Autonomy vs. Shame
  • Initiative vs. Guilt
  • Industry vs. Inferiority
  • Identity vs. Role Confusion
  • Intimacy vs. Isolation
  • Generativity vs. Stagnation
  • Integrity vs. Despair
• Trust vs. Mistrust


  The stage in which the infant feels uncertain about the external world
• Autonomy vs. Shame


  In this stage the child begins to assert for independence and starts to make decisions such as in choosing clothes, toys etc.
• Initiative vs. Guilt


  The child starts to regularly interact with other children
• Industry vs. Inferiority


  The stage where peer group becomes very important and becomes the source of self-esteem
• Identity vs. Role Confusion


  The individual begins to look to the future. In terms of family, career, relationships, etc. Several roles are considered at this stage
• Intimacy vs. Isolation


  The stage when one shares one's self more intimately with others, the exploration of relationships
• Generativity vs. Stagnation


  The stage of established career, family life or relationship and greater productivity
• Integrity vs. Despair


  As a retiree, one contemplates and looks into what was accomplished which leads to a sense of integrity. Failure to do so leads to doubts and despair
• Identity


  The concept of an individual about himself and is often referred to as "self-identity", molded through various interactive experiences around himself, such as their family and community, and his responses in terms of thinking, attitude and behavior to external stimuli
• Role Confusion


  The negation of self-identity, in a sense that there is confusion over one's self-concept or the absence or lack of such a concept