Intimacy Vs. Isolation Stages

It is during the ages 18 to 40 (early adulthood). This stage deals with forming personal relationships and feeling loved. Successful relationships are one that are enduring and secure. Having a strong sense of self identity is important for developing intimate relationships according to Erickson. People in less committed relationships are more likely to suffer emotional isolation, loneliness, and depression. At first, Antwone is isolated. He was 25 and had never been in a relationship before and was still a virgin. This is because he was traumatized as a child when he got raped by Nadine at the age of six and he was still finding who he was. By the end, he was in a happy relationship with Cheryl, who he was committed to, and he was no longer a

In “social isolation and perceived barriers to establishing social networks among Latina immigrants”, Hurtado de Mendoza, Gonzales, Serrano, Kaltman (2014) argues that Latina immigrants who come to the United States suffer can suffer from social isolation that affects their overall health. The study was conducted on Latina immigrants between the ages of 18-70. It condcluded that a repeated factor resoposible for their social isolation was the comparision they made between their homelands and the new envorminet they were exposed to when arriving to the Unites States. The study wanted to acknoweldge the barrieres that are experciended with an unreperesented population, this being Latina immigrants experviening social isolation.

Although not purposefully, Linda is cut off from the only thing she has ever known: the civilized world. The traumatic experience was a shock to her as she found herself alone, vulnerable, and in the hands of the dreaded savages. The exile was at first horrendous and against everything that she was conditioned to live out, but eventually proved to be enriching.

They also were exposed to role-reversing experiences from their mothers during childhood. The participants said they faced difficulty with their relationships with others. This was demonstrated by Participant #6, “I rather just go with somebody just for one time instead of having a relationship”. They find hardships with interpersonal relationships, and difficulty forming healthy intimate relationships. Prolonged parental separation and feelings of neglect during childhood contribute to the patients' later fears of abandonment. They feel misunderstood, an outcast, different and disconnected from their

baby had twenty one head injuries mainly bruising of the brain. The child was flown to Children’s and died from blunt force trauma to the head the next day at the age of two.

Intimacy and Isolation focuses on the person knowing who they are. Intimacy characteristics include a person knowing exactly who they are, having a good sense of the people around them, trusting their surroundings, being emotionally balanced, and one characteristic that really sticks out is the fact that they are secure in being alone. They can trust themselves alone as well as knowing that they will be okay (Hamachek, 1990). On the other hand when someone goes through the Isolation stage they hold characteristics that include: they do not posses who act of knowing who they are, they do not know or accept the people in their general surroundings, and they also do not mind going through separation after separation with people that they run into (Hamachek, 1990). Ethel displayed a strong sense of a woman who knew actually who she was, she did not have a problem with compromising and committing to emotions, and Ethel also knew where she came from and was grateful for al of her experiences (Finchum & Bishop,

During this stage, the young adult will either express intimacy through confiding in others and having a committed relationship or they will express isolation by having a difficult time confiding in others and expressing emotions. I scored an overall percentile rank of 4% for Intimacy and Isolation. I was very shocked when I first saw this number but after looking at the specifics of expressing intimacy, I understood why. The four qualifiers for intimacy are confiding in others, expressing deep feelings, having a committed relationship, and having trusting and deep relationships. I find myself not confiding in others due to not feeling like I can open up to them and not being able to trust them. I prefer to keep to myself to avoid being hurt or judged. I also agree that I don’t express deep feelings. Its not like I don’t have deep feelings it can just be hard for me to show those feelings. I think an aspect of why I don’t express my feelings comes from how I grew up. I have a very strong, positive and healthy home life but my family really doesn’t share our emotions with each other. We’ve never been the type to sit down and open up to each other. It will be interesting to see how my weakness in Intimacy and Isolation continues to develop. Now that I know I’m below average compared to women of my same age category, I may find myself confiding in others more. Once I get a stable circle of friends outside of college,

Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development states that in order to find intimacy and know "who you are," you must resolve your conflict in the "Identity vs. Role Confusion" Stage. Some individuals who never find true love can be thought of as not having successfully completed the stage. They never resolved their conflict thereby resulting in role confusion. Fromm states that in order to love, you must have self-love. How can you love yourself, if you don’t know "who you are?" This is what I feel creates the possessive love, the hurtful love, and the love that is taken for granted. It’s the one nightstand; "I’ll call you" love.

The band, Semisonic once sang in their hit song “Closing Time”, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end”. I was lucky to stumble upon this lyric as I began writing my relationship analysis paper on the ending of a friendship because it helped me realize that just because this friendship may have failed, I’ve learned so much from it and I’ve learned what being a friend truly is. I have gotten to experience new beginnings from the ending of the one I had with Julie and have been able to grow from it. During my sophomore year of high school, I struggled with finding my identity. Was I the druggy, the goody two shoes, the athletic one? I had no idea. In math class one day a girl reached out to me though, and I thought I was finally going to find my identity. But, to my dismay I learned that my identity was not going to be found in Julie, I would have to find and create it myself. In this paper I will be analyzing my friendship with Julie using Knapp’s Stages of Relational Development and I will also be applying two concepts, similarity and self-disclosure to the relationship from the book, Understanding Human Communication.

People often prefer to believe that it’s possible to hide pieces of ourselves that we don’t want people to see. And the fact is what we want to hide from others is something that we fear to face ourselves. The less we face these parts of ourselves, the more they hurt us. Learning about ourselves and facing all the facts of ourselves, especially those that we strive not to see, is the key to integration with ourselves, as well as connecting with other people. The less fluidity within ourselves to go in and out of our emotional spaces, the more likely ruptures will be caused in our relationships when blocked avenues explode.

Social support constitutes the psychological and material resources provided by a social network to benefit an individual's ability to cope with stressful events. The perceived ability of social support may protect against the potential of stressful events to elicit psychological distress, depression, and anxiety. Cohen asserted that possible explanation for the buffering effect of being hugged is that hugs might be exchanged between individuals involved in a situation involving tension and conflict either as a means of resolving that conflict or as a counter to associated emotional aftereffects (138). Cohen summarized that these findings suggest that people who regularly receive hugs are more protected than those who do not (144). Several

This research will begin with choosing a specific population. The population chosen was the 25 year old college students with feeling of loneliness and social isolation. According to research social isolation may cause anxiety and loneliness in some individuals and also the effects on their quality of life and physical well-being. These are some general problems that some college students may be characterized with. (http://iisit.org/).

Synthesis Essay “It’s me, myself and I.”Some people say being in a relationship is healthy, while others say “being single is the best!” This dilemma of being single or in a relationship is a basic conception. I say being single is greatest nevertheless there are many limits that a relationship has, but not one’s own life. The benefits of a one’s own life are; the amount of money they have, the health status and the possibilities are endless.

During this period in ones life, they learn how to implement their individual identity into societal roles that are placed upon them, without loosing their sense of who they are as a person. This can include a variety of situations from romantic relationships to ones had at work, and focus is on the psychosocial crisis of intimacy versus isolation (Newman & Newman, 2012). This period of the life course is often when individuals get married and begin having children, but it is also the time in which work becomes an integral part of a person’s lives. Learning to balance all of these trajectories at once can be chaotic, but finding this balance is essential to avoiding

Social Isolation was measured using the abbreviated version of the Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS-6: Lubben et al.2003). The Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS) was designed specifically to gauge levels of social isolation among older people by assessing levels of perceived social support and the availability of a confident (Lubben et al., 2004). In addition, it can also be considered an objective measure as the scale measures the size of the older person’s active social network. The abbreviated version of the original scale LSNS-6 was designed to be used as a screening tool for social isolation in community settings and in research settings (Lubben et al., 2003) and comprises of 6 questions separated into two categories; family and