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Perez, J. Carola; Cumsille, Patricio – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
The study analyzes the way in which adolescents' temperamental characteristics interact with parental control to shape adolescent decision making development. A sample of high-school Chilean adolescents (N = 391) answered a self-report questionnaire that included measures of behavioral autonomy (the extent to which adolescents make decisions in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Path Analysis, Decision Making, Personality Traits
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Lindfors, Pirjo; Solantaus, Tytti; Rimpela, Arja – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
We examined how Finnish adolescents' fears for their future changed over a quarter of a century and how these changes reflect transformations of the adolescents' key contexts from the late-modernist perspective. Nationally representative samples of 12-, 14-, 16-, and 18-year-olds in 1983, 1997, and 2007 were surveyed using mailed questionnaires…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Adolescent Attitudes, Content Analysis, Statistical Significance
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Gao, Yu; Baker, Laura A.; Raine, Adrian; Wu, Henry; Bezdjian, Serena – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
Objective: Adult psychopaths are thought to have risky decision-making and behavioral disinhibition, but little is known about the moderating effects of psychosocial factors and whether these associations can be observed in children with psychopathic tendencies. This study tests the biosocial hypothesis that social class will moderate…
Descriptors: Social Class, Psychopathology, Interaction, Decision Making