Question

Maggie, a junior in college, is changing her major for the fourth time. She expresses frustration about her attempt to choose a course of study that reflects her character and interests rather than her family's expectations. Erikson would most likely say that Maggie is:________.

Answer 1

ANSWER: MAGGIE IS EXPERIENCING AN IDENTITY CRISIS.

EXPLANATION:

IDENTITY CRISIS can also be expressed as the time in which an individual experience confusion (through indebt analysis and thinking) about his or her social role or failure to identify one's personality.

Identify crisis is traced back to the work of Erik Erickson (a German developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst), where he expressed the importance of identity formation in people's lives.

Thus, in Maggie's case, she is experiencing an identity crisis on which career to choose, regardless of her family's expectations. Hence, Maggie is suspected to be an adolescent based on Erickson's work.