... . He argued that the successful completion of each stage crisis would result in the individual acquiring basic virtues and a healthy personality (ego qualities), whereas failure to successfully complete a stage could result in the inability to complete further stages as well as an unhealthy personality and a poor sense of self (core pathologies) (Harms, 2010). The qualities formed throughout the stages are also influenced ... ...

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... age 19 years and declined afterwards while the mean proportion of the identity achieved increased over late adolescence and young adulthood. This suggests that a large proportion of adolescents do not complete the identity formation process during Erikson's identity versus confusion stage. Some researchers have furthered their investigations in order to compare the developmental continuum of Marcia's identity statuses during adolescence across ... ...

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