Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ220289
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979-Jun
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Psychosocial Antecedents of Unwed Motherhood among Indigent Adolescents.
Kaplan, Howard B.; And Others
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, v8 n2 p181-207 Jun 1979
Impoverished pregnant teenagers were distinguished from matched or random controls by an inability to cope; by identification of family, school, and peer relationships as self-devaluing experiences; by an attraction to deviant identity as a source of self-esteem; and by adoption of deviant behaviors. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Economically Disadvantaged, Group Dynamics, Junior High Schools, Locus of Control, Parent Influence, Predictor Variables, Pregnant Students, Racial Differences, Secondary Education, Self Esteem, Student School Relationship, Unwed Mothers
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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