Levinson Seasons Of Man's Life

In 1977, psychologist Daniel Levinson, developed a developmental theory model describing the seasons of a man's life. This theory incorporates the universal phases or stages of a man's life from infancy, through middle age and beyond. The work that Levinson did is paramount because in the past many developmental theories, such as Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory and Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory, ended in the adolescent stage of a man's life. Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Development Theory did span a lifetime, including a stage up to death, but he did not divide the stages of adulthood the way that Levinson did. Moreover, Levinson studied the series of developmental stages that adults go through in their lifetime through late adulthood and divided them into stages and sub or transitional stages with the main stages.
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Levinson constructed his theory based upon interviews of 40 American men between the ages of 35 and 45 years old with four differing occupations. The subjects were either business executives, professors, novelists or industrial laborers. Levinson believed that every man progresses through a series of stages or phases, which each phase generating different problems for the man to solve. Levinson conducted between 6 and 10 interviews for each participant and each interview focused on each man's adolescence, major events, particular religious and political beliefs, as well as their academic career.
Several stages including the pre-adult, early adult, middle adulthood and late adulthood stages are within Levinson's Season of Life Theory. The pre-adult stage is from conception through 22 years of age. At around 17 years old, a transition takes place, which Levinson calls the pre-adult transition stage. At this juncture of time, the

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