Research has shown that successful resolution of psychosocial crisis stages is related to life
satisfaction. Woods and Witte (1981) obtained a positive correlation between scores on a
scale to measure the first six Eriksonian stages and those on a life satisfaction questionnaire
administered to adult participants. Lowis and Raubenheimer (1997) likewise obtained a
positive correlation between scores on an ego integrity measure and those on the Life
Satisfaction in the Elderly Scale (Salamon & Conte, 1984), in their study of retired males.