A school-age child has failed to hit the baseball several times and now refuses

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A school-age child has failed to hit the baseball several times and now refuses to try again due to fear failure. According to Erikson, this represents possible unsuccessful mastery of which stage of personality development? Please explain your rational for your answer.

a. trust versus mistrust

b. autonomy versus shame and doubt

c. initiative versus guilt

d. industry versus inferiority

e. intimacy versus isolation

f. generativity versus stagnation

g. ego integrity versus despair

****My train of tought is this: I want to say industry versus inferiority because this is the stage that a school age child would be in. This stage covers ages 5-12. However, it could also be failure to develop at initiative versus guilt stage (play stage, ages 3-6) because that is the stage where purpose and resilience is learned. These are supposed to be NCLEX style questions, so I'm trying to not overthink the question, but it seems too easy that the question says "a school aged child" and the answer is the one that matches up to the school age stage.

Explanation / Answer

it will be option c as if the child fails he will be guilty to take the initiative

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