Psychological content of adulthood normal developmental crises

The study was conducted to test the hypothesis that there is a link between the structure and status of ego-identity and personality changers which take place in the normal developmental crises-transition to early, middle and late adulthood. The paper describes methods for study of developmental characteristics of the structure of ego-identity, revealing the main new formations appearing in the process of the normal developmental crises. The study discovered the symptoms of following three statuses of identity: foreclosure, identity diffusion and achieved identity. Those statuses conformity with three phases of normal developmental crises.