Stage/age | Identity/ Process/Self | Attribute/process | Social instincts | Adversity/ countermeasure | Potential mental problems |
Infancy/ 0 - 11/2 | parent/parent awareness/ physical self | trust/trust in parent | family-boundary | danger/hyperactivity | potential dramatic-impulsive cluster |
Toddlerhood/ 11/2 - 3 | self/self-awareness/ autonomous self | autonomy/exploration |
| unfamiliarity-uncertainty/ phobia | potential fearful-anxious cluster |
Childhood/ 3 - 18 | other people/theory of mind/diverse self | diversity/learning | division of labor | hardship/comforter | potential odd-eccentric cluster |
Adulthood/ 18 - 65+ | society/ sociality/social self to establish relations in diversity | eusociality/interdependent division of labor, generativity, generosity | alliance-sexual-generativity | disintegration/integration | potential emergence of personality-mental disorders |