Healthy and Maladjusted Type A Behavior in Adolescents.

Keltikangas-Jarvinen, Liisa; Raikkonen, Katri

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ERIC Number: EJ433869

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Publication Date: 1990

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Healthy and Maladjusted Type A Behavior in Adolescents.

Keltikangas-Jarvinen, Liisa; Raikkonen, Katri

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, v19 n1 p1-18 Feb 1990

Dimensions of Type A behavior were studied in 990 healthy Finnish adolescents; and conceptualization was clarified in terms of achievement striving, self-concept, and sense of control. The two independent dimensions identified are discussed in terms of healthy adjustment and social maladjustment. (SLD)

Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Aggression, Competition, Delinquency, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Locus of Control, Mental Health, Personality Problems, Secondary Education, Self Concept, Type A Behavior

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Finland

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