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Kit Turner; Jennifer P. Lilgendahl; Moin Syed; Kate C. McLean – Developmental Psychology, 2024
We examined the critical task of emerging adulthood--identity development--via analyses of trajectories of identity exploration and commitment over the college years, as well as whether narrative processing of important events during this period served as a mechanism of identity exploration and commitment. We took advantage of a unique and…
Descriptors: College Students, Young Adults, Self Concept, Individual Development
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Siman Zhao; Xinyin Chen; Heejung Park; Dan Li; Junsheng Liu; Liying Cui – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Self- and group orientations represent distinct ways of perceiving the relations between the world and the self and are relevant to adolescents' development. Most of the existing studies in this area are cross-sectional, providing little information about how self- and group orientations develop. This 3-year longitudinal study examined the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Social Adjustment, Student Behavior
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George B. Richardson; Daniel Bates; Amy Ross; Hexuan Liu; Brian B. Boutwell – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Many developmental theories have not been sufficiently evaluated using designs that control for unobserved familial confounds. Our long-term goal is to determine the causal structure underlying associations between early environmental conditions and later psychosocial and health outcomes. Our overall objective in this study was to further evaluate…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Females, Individual Development, Sexuality
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Lena Söldner; Maria Mammen; Markus Paulus – Developmental Psychology, 2024
The moral self-concept (MSC) is an early indicator of how children view themselves as moral agents. It has been proposed that an important feature of an established self-concept (SC) is sufficient coherency in how one views oneself. Furthermore, the MSC is expected to develop into a multidimensional, hierarchical construct which is stable over…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Self Concept, Moral Development, Individual Development
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Angela D. Evans; Victoria Talwar – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Given the value placed on honesty and the negative consequences of lying, encouraging children's truth-telling is important. The present investigation assessed honesty promotion techniques for encouraging 3-8-year-old Canadian children's (Study 1: n = 301, 54% female; Study 2: n = 229, 50% female from predominantly White middle-class samples)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Moral Development, Deception
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Lester Sim; Jiaxiu Song; Ka I. Ip; Christina Naegeli Costa; Wen Wen; Su Yeong Kim – Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study adopts a cultural ecological perspective to examine how cumulative effects of external transcultural and cultural strengths are related to baseline and changes in three markers of Mexican-origin adolescents' self-growth (i.e., resilience, life meaning, and discipline). Using a three-wave longitudinal data set (5 years) of 604…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Adolescent Development, Resilience (Psychology), Self Concept