Thirty-Year-Old Alayna Is Painfully Shy and So Sensitive to Rejection

Multiple Choice

Thirty-year-old Alayna is painfully shy and so sensitive to rejection that she rarely talks to people other than her coworkers and her family members. Occasionally a man asks her out, but she always refuses. She spends a good deal of time reading and writing in her diary about her loneliness and other feelings. According to Erikson's theory, Alayna is facing the psychosocial conflict of _____ and is likely to develop _____.

A) industry versus inferiority; inferiority
B) autonomy versus guilt; guilt
C) generativity versus stagnation; stagnation
D) intimacy versus isolation; isolation