Jane Loevinger
Jane Loevinger Weissman (born February 6, 1918 in Saint Paul, Minnesota , † January 4, 2008 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was a developmental psychologist with a professorship at Washington University . She is known for her model of ego development .
Coming from a German-Jewish family of a judge, she was a very good student. She studied at the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Berkeley , where she became research assistant to Erik H. Erikson . She and her husband went to St. Louis, where she began teaching statistics in psychology. In 1961 she became an assistant professor and in 1973 a professor. Her main interest initially was psychometrics .
First, she dealt with familiar interaction patterns and subsequently discovered structural personality traits that reflect the fundamental relationships between the “ I ” and its environment. To make the underlying structures of meaning visible , she developed the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT), a sentence completion test that measures a person's level of structural maturity. She used the term ego development for this in order to integrate the qualitative characteristics of personal development in a step model of potential personality growth. The model has found widespread use throughout developmental psychology.
As a woman, she was repeatedly not promoted in psychology and dealt with this in several essays. Her research focused on the role of mothers.
In 1943 she married Samuel Isaac Weissman , a chemistry professor who worked on the Manhattan Project . Together they had a son and a daughter.
Fonts
- The technic of homogeneous tests compared with some aspects of scale analysis and factor analysis. in: Psychological Bulletin, 45 , 507-529. (Diss. 1948)
- Measuring personality patterns of women . (1962)
- Measuring ego development . San Fransciso: Jossey Bass, (1970)
- Ego development . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, (1976)
- Paradigms of Personality. New York: Freeman, (1987)
- with Le Xuan Hy: Measuring Ego Development , 2nd Ed. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum. (1996)
literature
- M. Westenberg, Blasi, Cohn: Personality Development: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Investigations of Loevinger's Conception of Ego Development, 1998 ISBN 978-0805816495
- Susanne R. Cook-Greuter: Self-development: 9 levels of increasing comprehension. 2008 (unpublished translation and expansion of a version from 1985)
- Susanne R. Cook-Greuter: Postautonomous Ego Development: A Study of Its Nature and Measurement, (Diss.) Harvard 2010 ISBN 978-1450725156
Web links
- Washington University Obituary , last accessed April 26, 2018
- Description of the model on the website of Leiden University , accessed April 26, 2018
- Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind
Single receipts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loevinger, Jane |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weissman, Jane Loevinger (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American developmental psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Paul |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 2008 |
| Place of death | St. Louis , Missouri |