Jilted college student is admitted to a hospital following a suicide attempt and states, "No one will ever love a loser like me." According to Erikson's theory of personality development, a nurse should recognize a deficit in which developmental stage?
A. Trust versus mistrust
B. Initiative versus guilt
C. Intimacy versus isolation
D. Ego integrity versus despair
ANS: C
The nurse should recognize that the client who states, "No one will ever love a loser like me" has not adequately completed the intimacy versus isolation stage of development. The intimacy versus isolation stage is presumed to occur in young adulthood between the ages of 20 and 30 years. The major developmental task in this stage is to establish intense, lasting relationships or commitment to another person, cause, institution, or creative effort.
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