Sixteen-year-old Aaliyah experiments with different friend groups, considers several possible majors, tries out a religious community her family does not belong to, and asks her parents many questions about who she "really" is. Her parents notice that her values and goals shift several times during the year.
Aaliyah's behavior most directly reflects which Eriksonian conflict?
- Acheck_circle
Identity vs. role confusion
- B
Industry vs. inferiority
- C
Intimacy vs. isolation
- D
Generativity vs. stagnation
Explanation
The central task of adolescence in Erikson's theory is forming a coherent sense of self by exploring roles, values, and beliefs. The exploration and instability Aaliyah shows is typical of identity formation.