Scope and delimitation
This study had not been undertaken to predispose the Eriksonian psychosocial development theory. It did not test nor dispute Erikson. It merely used the theory in looking into the self-concept of the chosen informants. By doing so, it studied the responses through understanding and explaining them embarking in the context of the said Eriksonian psychosocial development theory. Moreover, the study eclectically collected the positions and concepts of other personality theories and does not have any intention of siding one over the other, rather its direction is gearing towards the so-called ‘meta-theorizing’ that is discovering a theory out of theories.