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Steinberg, Laurence; Lerner, Richard M. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2004
This article provides an overview of the history of research on adolescence. In our view, the history of the scientific study of adolescence has had two overlapping phases and is now on the cusp of a third. The first phase, which began early in the 20th century and lasted about 70 years, was characterized by grand theoretical models that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Hypothesis Testing, Adolescent Development, Social Science Research