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What is Erikson's central psychosocial task for early adulthood?

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Early adulthood is fairly vague - some interpret that as late teens, others, early twenties. There are two stages that fit somewhere in there, typically the upper end of one is 19, the lower end of the other 20, so I'll try and describe both.

Identifying one's own identity is one of the biggest challenges in the late teens - answering the question: "who am I" and, by extension, ...

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