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The Adolescent Personality, Formal Reasoning, and Values.
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Darmody, John P. – Adolescence, 1991
Examined relationship between levels of Piagetian formal reasoning ability and values preferences derived from Rokeach Value Survey. Findings from 448 secondary school students revealed that subjects with high scores on formal reasoning ranked terminal values representing abstract notions with long-term implications higher than those focusing on…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Formal Operations
Enhancing Moral Growth: Is Communication the Key?
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Santilli, Nicholas R.; Hudson, Lynne M. – Adolescence, 1992
Seventeen college undergraduates, possessing either basic or consolidated formal operations, received eight weeks of interpersonal skills training and pre- and posttraining assessments of social perspective taking and moral reasoning. Gains in moral reasoning were related to subjects' possessing prerequisite cognitive and perspective-taking…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Formal Operations, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence
Adolescent Egocentrism and Cognitive Functioning during Late Adolescence.
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Rycek, Robert F.; Stuhr, Sherry L.; McDermott, Jacci; Benker, Jennifer; Swartz, Michelle D. – Adolescence, 1998
Examines the relationship between adolescent egocentrism and postformal thinking in 163 college undergraduates. Uses the Imaginary Audience Scale and the Social Paradigm Belief Inventory to evaluate participants. Results indicate that females have higher levels of adolescent egocentrism than do males. (Author/GCP)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Cognitive Development, Egocentrism, Formal Operations
Reading and Formal Thinking in Quebec High School Students.
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Cote, Camille; Leide, John E. – Adolescence, 1989
Examined high school students' scores on test of formal thinking and those on test of reading. Students' success on both tests was disappointingly low. Lack of motivation appeared to be major problem. Correlations between scores on two tests were relatively low, although there was suggestive similarity between distribution of scores for formal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
Formal Operations, the Imaginary Audience and the Personal Fable.
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Hudson, Lynne M.; Gray, William M. – Adolescence, 1986
Administered the Adolescent Egocentrism Scale (AES) to middle and high school students (N=129). Found partial support for Inhelder and Piaget's and Elkind's views that adolescent egocentrism is a function of beginning formal operations. Discusses the difficulty of assessing the true thoughts/feelings of persons who are worried how they will appear…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Development, Egocentrism
Formal Operations and Ego Identity in Adolescence.
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Wagner, Janis A. – Adolescence, 1987
Investigated the relationship between the development of formal operations and the formation of ego identity in adolescence. Obtained significant positive correlations between combinatorial ability and degree of identity, suggesting that high identity may facilitate the application of combinatorial operations. Found some gender differences in task…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development