According to John Livesley from the University of British Columbia there are three types of life tasks that are important and failure with any one of these tasks warrants a personality disorder diagnosis. Which of the following is not one of the three tasks?

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The three types of life tasks mentioned by John Livesley are A) the formation of stable, integrated and coherent representations of self and others, B) the development of the capacity for intimacy and positive affiliation with other people, and D) functioning adaptively in society by engaging in prosocial and cooperative behaviours. Self-regulatory skills are important but are not explicitly mentioned by Livesley as one of the three life tasks necessary for personality development.