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Lionel thinks he wants to be a fireman, but he is not sure. He is working with his high school career counselor to get information about careers and college majors before he makes a decision. According to Marcia, Lionel is in which stage of identity development?

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He is in the stage of “Moratorium” in identity development.

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According to Marcia, “Lionel” is in “Moratorium” stage of “identity development”. James Marcia extended and refined Erikson's work and came up with his concepts on psychological identity development which included four Identity Statuses. Among those, four Identity Statuses comes Identity Moratorium in which a person who is in his adolescence goes through a crisis of exploring different commitments. So, the person is now ready to make choices from those commitments but is not ready to make a commitment to the choices provided yet.

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