Developmental-Tasks Robert Havighurst

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DEVELOPMENTAL

TASKS
By: ROBERT HAVIGHURST
INFANCYAND EARLY MIDDLE CHILDHOOD ADOLESCENCE
CHILDHOD (0-5) (6-12) (13-18)
1. Learning to walk 1. Learning physical skills necessary 1. Achieving mature relations
2. Learning to take solid foods for ordinary games with both sexes
2. Building a wholesome attitude
3. Learning to talk 2. Achieving a masculine or
towards oneself
4. Learning to control the 3. Learning to get along with agemates feminine social role
elimination of body wastes 4. Learning an appropriate sex role 3. Accepting one’s physique
5. Learning sex differences and 5. Developing fundamental skills in 4. Achieving emotional
sexual modesty reading, writing and calculating
independence of adults
6. Acquiring concepts and 6. Developing concepts necessary for
everyday living 5. Preparing for marriage and
language to describe social and 7. Developing conscience, morality and family life
physical reality a scale of values 6. Preparing for an economic
7. Readiness for reading 8. Achieving personal independence career
8. Learning to distinguish right 9. Developing acceptable attitudes
from wrong and developing a toward society 7. Acquiring values and an
conscience ethical system to guide
behavior
EARLY ADULTHOOD MIDDLE ADULTHOOD LATE MATURITY
(19-29) (30-60) (61-and over)
1.Selecting a mate 1. Helping teenage children to
become happy and responsible
1. Adjusting to decreasing
strength and health
2.Learning to live with adults 2. Adjusting to retirement and
a partner 2. Achieving adult social and reduced income
civic responsibility 3. Adjusting to death of
3.Starting a family 3. Satisfactory career
spouse
4.Rearing children achievement
4. Establishing relations with
4. Developing adult leisure time
5.Managing a home activities one’s own age group
6.Starting occupation 5. Relating to one’s spouse as a 5. Meeting social and civic
person obligation
7.Assuming civic 6. Accepting the physiological 6. Establishing satisfactory
responsibility changes of middle age living quarters
7. Adjusting to aging parent

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