Instructions: According to Erik Erikson, an identitycrisis refers to the feelings of anxiety that accompany efforts todefine or redefine one’s own individuality and social reputation.Identity crises often are associated with late adolescence andearly adulthood, but can also occur in middle adulthood (also knownas a “mid-life crisis”). Perhaps you went through your own identitycrisis, or you know someone who did or who is currently strugglingwith an identity crisis. Think of one such person. In the spaceprovided below, write 10 behaviors that reveal that a person may bestruggling with an identity crisis.

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What behaviors do you consider to be most indicative of someonegoing through an identity crisis? Thinking about Erikson’s conceptof identity crisis and Baumeister’s argument that there are twodistinct types of identity crises—identity deficit and identityconflict, which hypothesis do you think best explains identitycrisis? Why?