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Gideonse, Sarah – 1988
This document discusses whether young people with difficulty entering adulthood can be helped, or if accumulated effects of various adversitites have caused irremediable damage. First the developmental tasks that adolescents need to accomplish before they can take on adult roles are described. Next, two well-known explanations for youths' failure…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Developmental Tasks
Peer reviewedLee, Hing-chu B.; And Others – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1992
Examined relationship between coping styles and psychological distress in nonclinical sample of 832 Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. Factor analyses suggest adolescents used relatively similar coping strategies. Four broad coping styles were identified. Avoidance/blaming was found to be a significant and moderately strong predictor of psychological…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Developmental Tasks, Foreign Countries
