Which of the following statement is correct regarding adolescence, under…

Concept: Erikson's psychosocial theory describes eight developmental stages, each defined by a crisis between two opposing tendencies whose successful resolution yields a specific psychosocial virtue. The adolescent stage is defined by the crisis Identity vs. Role Confusion: the individual must build a coherent, continuous sense of self (ego-identity) or else drift into confusion about roles and values. Successfully resolving this crisis yields the virtue of Fidelity, and every virtue in Erikson's scheme is, by definition, a constructive, adaptive strength — never a deficit or a value-neutral label.

Application: Applying this to adolescence: ego-identity is the outcome-construct this stage produces when the Identity vs. Role Confusion crisis resolves successfully, and it carries the value-laden virtue of fidelity. Erikson's own framework therefore characterizes it as a positive psycho-social aspect of development, not a negative or neutral one.

Cross-check: Relevant theory points for each of the remaining statements:

• Role confusion — a distinct term for the crisis's other pole — is where Erikson's theory locates an unfavourable connotation, not the resolved ego-identity construct itself.

• Every resolved Eriksonian stage carries a specific named virtue (fidelity, here) as part of the theory's own vocabulary — a value-bearing detail rather than a value-free one.

• "Psycho-social" is Erikson's own umbrella term for this exact developmental construct, spanning inner experience and social context together in one category.

Taken together with the concept above, ego-identity is correctly described as a positive psycho-social aspect of adolescent development under Erikson's theory.