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All right.
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So here we have a student, mindy, who's searching for what career she wants to do or what she wants to pursue with her life.
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Now, we're asked to decide which of the four stages of identity status she fits most closely in at this stage in her life.
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So let's go through them and see which seems to best fit her scenario.
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So first, we have diffusion, where there's no commitment, no search for personal identity, kind of like being blown in the wind, an avoidance.
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Of discomfort and not a strong need to search for one's own personal identity.
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Now, we know that mindy already has decided that she wants to become something in the aerospace or aeronautical industry.
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She has a decision for herself of what she's passionate about and what she believes.
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So that eliminates diffusion.
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Similarly, foreclosure is a search of identity, but not really for oneself.
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It is adoption of the identities around.
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And so if mindy's mom had been an aeronautical engineer and she had put no thought into her decision of this career, perhaps that would be foreclosure.
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But we're given in the problem that mindy has decided for herself that she wants to be either an engineer or a pilot and we're not told that she's getting that input from someone else...