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Harper, Melinda S.; Dickson, Joseph W.; Welsh, Deborah P. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
This study examined the link between rejection sensitivity, self-silencing behaviors, and depressive symptomatology among adolescent dating couples. Self-silencing was hypothesized to be the process mediating the association between rejection sensitivity and depressive symptoms. Our sample included 211 couples between 14 and 21 who were dating at…
Descriptors: Rejection (Psychology), Adolescents, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Depression (Psychology)
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Hacker, Douglas J. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 1994
Examines from an existential view the development of abstract thought in adolescents and the conflicts arising from its process. Proposes an existential model that views various types of adolescent behavior as the manifestation of the adolescent's defense mechanisms developed in response to existential conflict; presents specific examples of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents