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From trust on intimacy: A new inventory for examining erikson's stages of psychosocial development

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A new inventory for examining the first six of Erikson's psychosocial stages is described. The self-report questionnaire, developed in a pilot study of 97 adolescents and tested in a study of 622 adolescents, has 12 items for each subscale. Measures of reliability and validity are reported. It is concluded that the Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (EPSI) is a useful measure for researchers interested in development from early adolescence and in mapping changes as a function of life events.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Melbourne State College, Australia

    Susan M. Moore (Senior Lecturer)

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, 3052, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    Doreen A. Rosenthal (Lecturer) & Ross M. Gurney (Research Assistant)

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This research was supported by a grant from the Education Research and Development Committee.

Received Ph.D. from University of Melbourne. Current research interests are adolescent adjustment, ethnicity, and sex-role psychology.

Received Ph.D. from University of Melbourne. Current research interests are effects of unemployment and adolescent adjustment.

Received Ph.D. from Florida State University. Current research interests are sex-role psychology and adolescence.

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Rosenthal, D.A., Gurney, R.M. & Moore, S.M. From trust on intimacy: A new inventory for examining erikson's stages of psychosocial development. J Youth Adolescence 10, 525–537 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02087944

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