According to Eric Berne, How Many Ego States Are There

question 32

Multiple Choice

According to Eric Berne, how many ego states are there?

• A) 4
• B) 9
• C) 6
• D) 3

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Definitions:

Hopes and Fears

Emotional responses to potential future events, with hopes being positive anticipations and fears being negative anticipations.

Reflexive Modernity

A new period of modernity in which the traditional stability-maintaining structures of class, family, and industrial forms of production have waned, placing greater pressure on people to create their own sense of stability and identity.

Ontological Security

A stable mental state derived from a sense of continuity in one's social and material identities, providing a sense of order in one's life.