Administered Rokeach Value Survey to measure the value differences and value stability of 148 15- to 18-year-old adolescents. Examined the differences between adolescents who suffered from conduct-disorder, anxiety-withdrawal and those not suffering from a disorder. Results suggest that all three groups of adolescents share values and the…

Examined ethnicity, gender, and grade as potential mediating factors of early adolescent identity development. Administered Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status to 367 seventh- and eighth-graders. Results showed instrument appropriate for use with early adolescents. Females and older students were more developmentally sophisticated…

This article, based largely on participant observation by a British 18-year-old schoolgirl, considers forces that crush creativity in teenagers, including pressures at school, at home, and by peers. The article shows how teenagers whose creativity has been crushed then humiliate and crush the creativity of other teenagers. Mentoring is seen as one…

Explored the effects of familial responsiveness and behavior control on internalizing and externalizing symptoms in adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Found that lower levels of familial responsiveness were associated with externalizing symptoms, and with dismissive attachment representations. (HTH)

Reports a study that examined the relationship between 10th graders' identity development and leisure activity participation. Surveys and interviews indicated that different leisure activities could have beneficial or detrimental effects on identity formation. The relationship between leisure and identity development depended on gender and the…

Contrasts the spontaneity and magic of remembered childhood adventures with artificial irrelevant professionalized adventure activities that result in the disempowerment of young people. Calls for a different style of outdoor leadership focused on coaching and facilitating young people as they apply their own strategies to high-risk areas of their…

Notes that violations of parent's expectancies, which are more likely during periods of rapid developmental change, provoke realignments in parent-adolescent relationships. Describes a systematic program of research exploring the nature of parental expectancies, the extent of expectancy violations during adolescence, and the consequences of these…

Proposed and tested model for predicting college students' (n=224) identity. Sequentially considered information on students' reported conflictual independence from parents and their current mood states and generalized self-efficacy. Model explained significant variance in criterion measure for both sexes; respective contributions of model…

Utilizes the theoretical formulations of Margaret Mahler and her colleagues on separation and individuation to understand how to plan psycho-rehabilitation programs for emotionally disturbed adolescents and young adults. The separation-individuation process and anxiety issues are discussed and analyzed in terms of both theory and practical…

Examined adolescents' perceptions of their daily conflicts in relationships with mothers, fathers, siblings, friends, romantic partners, and other peers and adults. Most adolescent conflicts were perceived as benign events with few positive or negative consequences for the relationship. Results suggest that adolescents recognize the fluidity and…

Male and female undergraduates were examined in an effort to determine the relationship between late adolescents' identity status and their memory of their relationships to their parents. Results revealed differences between subjects with committed identities and those with uncommitted identities in the amount of love felt for and received from…

Based on questionnaire responses, 139 ninth and twelfth graders were divided into low and high drug use groups. High use subjects viewed drug use as less harmful than did low use subjects and were less likely to view parents or the law as authorities concerning drug use. (BC)

Before working, adolescents who later worked more than 20 hours per week were less engaged in school and granted more autonomy by their parents than other adolescents. Working more than 20 hours per week further disengaged adolescents from school, increased delinquency and drug use, furthered autonomy, and diminished self-reliance. (BC)

College students (n=71) completed inventory of adaptively regressive experiences and Identity Status Interview. Found that Moratorium status students (actively engaged in identity formation) showed greater disposition to adaptive regression than did individuals in other statuses. Findings support view that adaptive regression may serve function in…

LISREL analysis of Toronto (Canada) survey data suggests that the search for adolescent role exits such as early marriage or parenthood was most strongly related to family strains and absence of parental controls, followed by female gender plus maternal unemployment, feelings of depression, father's socioeconomic status, identification with…