According to Erikson, if an adolescent struggles to find and adopt a suitable identity, he/she may do any/all of the following EXCEPT

a) exhibit socially unacceptable roles as a way of expressing what/who they do not want to be.
b) have difficulty forming and maintaining long-lasting and close personal relationships.
c) develop a sense of self that is "diffuse" because it is not organized around a central, unified core identity.
d) develop an identity disorder/mental illness such as schizophrenia.


d

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