Author Question: Studies on the concept of ego identity that was proposed by Erikson showed that: a. it is ... (Read 45 times)

jjjetplane · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Studies on the concept of ego identity that was proposed by Erikson showed that:

a. it is negatively related to maternal identification.
b. younger men experience lower levels of psychological distress than do older men.
c. women are more successful than men in achieving ego identity.
d. adolescents who developed trust and autonomy displayed a high level of identity cohesion.

Question 2

Research on Erikson's psychosocial stages demonstrated:

a. little support for all individual stages and their associated psychological manifestations.
b. a relationship between happiness and adaptive development in the first six stages.
c. no relationship between the individual stages and their ascribed aspects of personality.
d. support for the occurrence of generativity or stagnation during adolescence.

efwsefaw · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Adolescents who developed trust, autonomy, initiative, and industriousness (adaptive ways of coping) in the first four stages of psychosocial development displayed a high level of identity cohesion rather than role confusion. Adolescents who had not resolved their identity crisis and who experienced role confusion had not developed adaptive ways of coping in the earlier stages.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
FEEDBACK: A study using the Inventory of Psychosocial Development, a test designed to assess adaptive and maladaptive development in Erikson's first six stages, found a significant relationship between happiness and adaptive development at each stage. Another study showed a high correlation between maladaptive development in the first six stages and a sense of alienation and uprootedness.