NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Brezina, Timothy – New Directions for Youth Development, 2008
Some adolescents develop an especially strong need for autonomy, desiring to be "their own boss" and determined to follow their own rules. Previous research indicates that an exaggerated need for autonomy is associated with aggression and other problem behaviors. Yet little is known about the origins of such "me-first" attitudes. Why do some young…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Adolescents, Defense Mechanisms
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gavriel-Fried, Belle; Teichman, Meir – Journal of Drug Education, 2007
The study examines the issue of ego identity among adolescent sons of alcoholic fathers. Forty-four adolescent sons of alcoholic fathers, age of 15-18, constituted the sample. They were drawn from public alcohol treatment center in Israel. The control group included 60 adolescents none of their parents is known as an alcoholic, sampled from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Fathers, Defense Mechanisms
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Tamar, Muge; Bildik, Tezan; Kosem, Figen Sen; Kesikci, Hande; Tatar, Arkun; Yaman, Bora; Erermis, Serpil; Ozbaran, Burcu – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
The aim of the present study was to examine the characteristics of separation-individuation in Turkish high school students and to investigate the contribution of sociodemographic variables on this second individuation process of adolescence. The sample consisted of 618 adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18 in three urban and two rural high…
Descriptors: Grade 10, High School Students, Separation Anxiety, Rejection (Psychology)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Hart, Daniel; Chmiel, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 1992
At age 13, and for the next 20 years, male subjects were periodically interviewed about their moral judgments. Adolescents with mature use of defense mechanisms reasoned at higher stages of moral judgment 10 to 20 years after the initial interview than did those with immature use of defense mechanisms. (BC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Coping, Defense Mechanisms