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Peer reviewedAdams, Gerald R. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1983
In male and female adolescents (n=30), the predictive relationship between social competency and peer relations and age differences in social competence was studied. Based upon a social deficit hypothesis, linear age differences were observed in social knowledge, locus of control, and a trend in empathy. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Empathy, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedLifshitz, Michaela – Child Development, 1973
The Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire (IAR) was given to 183 children, ages 9 to 14, from three kibutz movements in Israel, in order to explore the meaning of locus of control among children raised within a specified framework. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Elementary School Students, Failure
Peer reviewedYoung, James W.; Ferguson, Lucy Rau – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1979
Eighty subjects in grades 5, 7, 9, and 12 spontaneously nominated peers as the most acceptable reference group for social judgment; adults outside the family as a reference group for informational judgment; and parents as the best referent for moral judgment. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Decision Making
