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Meeus, Wim; Dekovic, Maja – Adolescence, 1995
Dutch adolescents, ages 12 to 14, completed the Utrect-Groningen Identity Development Scale, which encompasses separate scales for commitment in exploration for relational, school, and occupational identity. Results show that relational identity becomes consistently stronger as adolescents age, and that for girls, relational identity is much more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Career Choice, Higher Education

Dubas, Judith Semon; Gerris, Jan R. M.; Janssens, Jan M. A. M.; Vermulst, Ad A. – Journal of Adolescence, 2002
Investigates the concurrent correlates and developmental antecedents of personality types in a sample of 14 to 19-year-old Dutch adolescents. Three main personality types with behavioral and parenting correlates and antecedents were identified. Discussion highlights the importance of the family environment in understanding behavioral correlates of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Family Environment

Vollebergh, W. A. M.; Iedema, J.; Raaijmakers, Q. A. W. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001
Examines the intergenerational transmission and the formation of cultural orientations in adolescence. Results revealed late adolescence is the "formative phase" for the establishment of cultural orientations and suggested psychological processes such as internalization guide this formation. It was concluded that the investigated…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship
van Aken, Marcel A. G. – 1996
This longitudinal study examined consistency and change in human personality. Rather than studying the consistency of individual differences over time, an approach which considers only the stability of a variable at the group level and ignores differences in stability at an individual level, this study used a person-centered approach to study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Foreign Countries