Erik Erikson's View of the Cognitive Changes Occurring in the Middle and Late Stages of Adulthood
1721
Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson suggested that middle adulthood encompasses a period he characterizes as the generativity-versus-stagnation stage. Middle adulthood is spent in either generativity, making contributions to family and society as a whole, or stagnation. Generative people strive to be involved with others as well as…