The nurse is caring for a hospitalized client who is quarrelsome when gratification is delayed. According to Sullivan's interpersonal theory, the nurse should associate the client's behaviors with a previous deficit in which stage of development?

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According to Sullivan's interpersonal theory, the behavior of being quarrelsome when gratification is delayed is associated with a previous deficit in the childhood stage of development when the client may not have learned to tolerate frustrating experiences and delay gratification.

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