Answer:
- The moratorium stage
Step-by-step explanation:
According to Erikson, 'The Moratium Stage' is described as the stage that taken the person forward in order to attain his/her true identity or sense of self. This stage substantiates that achieving the status of identity achievement is not perpetual always as this stage talks about the identity crisis that the adolescents undergo. This shows that the ones who fail to proceed through this struggle and unable to self-explore themselves leading to identity diffusion. Thus, option D is the correct answer.