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The Timing of Psychosocial Transitions in Adolescence: Commonalities and Differences in Unified Germany.

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Silbereisen, Rainer K.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1995

Interviewed 1,708 East and West German adolescents to study similarities and differences in their psychosocial transitions. Found that females generally underwent transitions earlier than males. East German youths conceived of the transition to work and displayed autonomy earlier than West German youth, but the overall timetable of transitions…

Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis

Prosocial and Antisocial Motivation of Adolescents in East and West Germany.

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Trommsdorff, Gisela; Kornadt, Hans-Joachim – New Directions for Child Development, 1995

Used psychological tests to examine the effects of early childhood experiences on interaction patterns that have resulted from East and West German children growing up in different social contexts. Subjects were 140 East and West German adolescents. Found that West German adolescents showed more prosocial tendencies and had stronger emotion-based…

Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cultural Differences, Early Experience