Seventeen-year-old Hassam has spent a lot of time this past year thinking about his personal values and life goals. He has decided to go to college and be an architect to design low-income housing. He has even taken a job and begun saving for college. Hassam appears to have attained a sense of ___

(A) role diffusion.

(B) ego identity.

(C) identity.

(D) initiative.

(E) role suffusion.

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Brooke

Social Studies

6 August, 03:14

Seventeen-year-old Hassam has spent a lot of time this past year thinking about his personal values and life goals. He has decided to go to college and be an architect to design low-income housing. He has even taken a job and begun saving for college. Hassam appears to have attained a sense of ___

(A) role diffusion.

(B) ego identity.

(C) identity.

(D) initiative.

(E) role suffusion.

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Memphis Ramsey · Answer 1

The correct answer is option (B) "ego identity".

Explanation:

According to Erik Erikson, ego identity is a sense of identity developed by people acting with continuity and sameness. Erikson viewed ego identity as a way to self protection when an individual is facing changes in his life. In this example, Hassam is experiencing adolescence, and he appears to have attained a sense of ego identity by having continuity of his idea of personal values and life goals when he decided to study architecture and design low-income housing.