Ego Development Stages

[HeartofJuyoMk2]

Jane Loevinger once wrote a great deal of material regarding stages of ego development which can help determine how psychologically mature a person is. The stages are such straight from Wikipedia. What I really want to know is if anybody can find a survey online which can determine which stage I am on. Thanks.

Infancy

• Presocial
• beginning ego
• Not Differentiated from the World
• Symbiotic
• Self-Nonself Differentiation
• Stability of Objects

Impulsive

• Curbed by Restraints, Rewards & Punishments
• Others are Seen as What They Can Give
• "Nice to Me" or "Mean to Me"
• Present-Centred
• Physical but not Psychological Causation

Self-Protective

• Anticipates Rewards & Punishments
• First Self-Control
• "Don’t Get Caught"
• Externalize Blame
• Opportunistic Hedonism

Conformist

• Take in Rules of the Group
• No Self Apart from Others
• Other’s Disapproval is Sanction
• Not Only Fear of Punishment
• Rules and Norms not Distinguished
• Rejects Out-Group
• Stereotypes Roles
• Security = Belonging
• Behaviours Judged Externally not by Intentions

Self-Aware

• Self Distinct from Norms & Expectations
• First Inner Life
• Banal Feelings Always in Reference to Others
• Pseudo-Trait Conceptions
• Modal Stage of Adults

Conscientious

• Goals and Ideals
• Sense of Responsibility
• Rules are Internalized
• Guilt is From Hurting Another, not Breaking Rules
• Having Self Apart from Group
• Standards are Self-Chosen
• Traits are Part of Rich Interior World
• Standards Distinguished from Manners
• Motives and not Just Actions
• Sees Self from Other Point of View

Individualistic

• Distancing from Role Identities
• Subjective Experience as Opposed to Objective Reality
• Greater Tolerance of Self & Others
• Relationships Cause Dependency
• Awareness of Inner Conflict
• Inner Reality Vs. Outward Appearance
• Psychological Causality and Development

Autonomous

• Inner Conflicts of Needs Vs Duties
• Polarity, Complexity, Multiple Facets
• Integrate Ideas
• Tolerate Ambiguity
• Freeing from Conscience
• Concern for Emotional Interdependence
• Integrates Different Identities
• Self-Fulfillment
• How They Function in Different Roles

Integrated

• Transcendence of Conflicts
• Self-Actualizing
• Fully Worked Out Identity

 

[kaizasosei]

Cool stuff. I think i should make this precious information a mantra and repeat it over and over untill the world becomes thoroughly transparent.

j

 

[girlbug2]

I wonder if the self-actualized individual is a total myth. Has anybody ever met one?

 

[Nolerama]

Don't you bounce around from stage to stage depending on the situation you're in?

 

[Touch Of Death]

Don't you bounce around from stage to stage depending on the situation you're in?

Well for instance you are either a don't get caught person or you are not. If you follow the rules most of the time, the "don't get caught" is your weakness. I had a relationship with a woman once who demanded that I follow the rules, but couldn't stop stealing when she felt she could get away with it.
Sean