Jane experienced a new sense of autonomy after her divorce five years ago. Since her remarriage, she is having difficulty shifting her identity from a single person to identification as a couple. This process is called

• A. Psychic remarriage
• B. Community remarriage
• C. Emotional imbalance
• D. Self-esteem erosion

Answer: (A)

This item is about the inner reorientation that happens when someone enters a new marriage. After a divorce, a person may value independence, but remarrying often requires redefining the self as part of a couple rather than as a single individual. This shift—the psychological reorganization of identity to fit a two-person partnership—is what is being described as a psychic remarriage. It involves adopting new couple-centered roles, routines, and emotional cues, and integrating the marriage into one’s self-concept.

The other terms don’t fit because they describe different ideas: community remarriage would imply social or communal aspects of the remarriage, not the internal identity shift; emotional imbalance points to distress or instability, not the process of forming a paired identity; and self-esteem erosion refers to a drop in self-worth, not the transition to identifying as a couple.