Abe Cordel's Psychosocial Theory

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Abe Cordel was a successful in life by his occupation as a trained petroleum engineer. He worked for the most successful American owned oil company for 40 years. His parents lacked of closeness to one another in marriage affected him by not having constant trust and intimate warm relationship with his parents. Instead of his father staying at home to develop trust with Abe, he preferred moving about with other men in his community, while his mother will be the only one to stay home. According to Erikson’s psychosocial theory, basic trust versus basic mistrust affected him when he was a child and grew up with it.
Notwithstanding, Abe was trained in engineering field, but his childhood life lack of trust to others was a big problem for him because,

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