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Romantic Relationship Commitment and Its Linkages with Commitment to Parents and Friends during Adolescence
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De Goede, Irene H. A.; Branje, Susan; van Duin, Jet; VanderValk, Inge E.; Meeus, Wim – Social Development, 2012
This five-wave longitudinal study examines linkages between adolescents' perceptions of romantic relationship commitment and the development of adolescents' perceptions of commitment to parents and friends. A total of 218 early-to-middle adolescents (39.0 percent boys) and 185 middle-to-late adolescents (30.8 percent boys) participated.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Late Adolescents, Males, Gender Differences
Identity Statuses as Developmental Trajectories: A Five-Wave Longitudinal Study in Early-to-Middle and Middle-to-Late Adolescents
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Meeus, Wim; van de Schoot, Rens; Keijsers, Loes; Branje, Susan – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
This study tested whether Marcia's original identity statuses of achievement, moratorium, early closure (a new label for foreclosure), and diffusion, can be considered identity status trajectories. That is, we examined whether these statuses are distinct and relatively stable, over-time configurations of commitment strength, levels of in-depth…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Adolescents, Identification (Psychology), Early Adolescents
On the Progression and Stability of Adolescent Identity Formation: A Five-Wave Longitudinal Study in Early-to-Middle and Middle-to-Late Adolescence
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Meeus, Wim; Van De Schoot, Rens; Keijsers, Loes; Schwartz, Seth J.; Branje, Susan – Child Development, 2010
This study examined identity development in a 5-wave study of 923 early-to-middle and 390 middle-to-late adolescents thereby covering the ages of 12-20. Systematic evidence for identity progression was found: The number of diffusions, moratoriums, and searching moratoriums (a newly obtained status) decreased, whereas the representation of the…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Adolescents, Individual Differences, Longitudinal Studies
Parental Attachment and Romantic Relationships: Associations with Emotional Disturbance during Late Adolescence.
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Overbeek, Geertjan; Vollebergh, Wilma; Engels, Rutger C. M. E.; Meeus, Wim – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2003
Examines cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between late adolescents' parental attachment and emotional disturbance. Specifically, they investigated whether associations between parental attachment and emotional disturbance were less strong for adolescents with romantic partners. Links cross-sectionally, but not longitudinally, between…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Disturbances, Interpersonal Relationship, Late Adolescents