nsure that she will graduate. She feels that her diploma will help her to find a decent paying job with which she will be able to support herself and her family. The Psychosocial Crisis for this life stage is individual identity versus identity confusion. This is a difficult process because she must pull together all the different aspects of her life up to this point and figure out exactly what type of person she has become. The other end of the spectrum is when a person is unable to commit to what type of person he/she really is. Anne is able to see her good points and her bad points and bring them together to form a whole person. Role experimentation is the Central Process for later adolescence. The Central Process is tied in with the Developmental Task of gender identification. Anne is in a period of experimentation where she is free to move from role to role before making any final decisions about her life. She is using more of a diffuse-avoidance method to make all of her life choices. She has a low level of exploration and a low level of commitment. Her ethnic identity takes on the form of articulation and awareness. She has combined her own beliefs with those of society to form her own unique person.The Prime Adaptive Ego Quality is fidelity, while the Core Pathology is repudiation. Anne is moving more toward the Prime Adaptive Ego Quality of fidelity. She is ready to be in a committed relationship and get married. At this point in her life if she were to get pregnant again she would keep the baby and make a life for themselves. She is prepared to give herself to someone else.I believe that Anne is prepared to deal with whatever life has to offer. When she reaches early adulthood she will not have any problems with the Psychosocial Crisis of intimacy versus isolation. I also feel that she will choose the Prime Adaptive Ego Quality of love over the Core Pathology of exclusivity. Overall Anne is developing normall...
