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The Developmental Origins and Future Implications of Dispositional Optimism in the Transition to Adulthood
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Renaud, Jesse; Barker, Erin T; Hendricks, Charlene; Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Despite the robust link between dispositional optimism and well-being across the lifespan, the developmental origins of dispositional optimism are unknown. Understanding the pathways that lead to greater optimism during the transition from adolescence into young adulthood may be important given that this stage of the life course involves the…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Psychological Patterns, Positive Attitudes, Well Being
Parental Influences on Greek Adolescents' Career Decision-Making Difficulties: The Mediating Role of Core Self-Evaluations
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Koumoundourou, Georgia; Tsaousis, Ioannis; Kounenou, Kalliope – Journal of Career Assessment, 2011
The purpose of the study was to explore the influence of family characteristics (family function and parental authority styles) and core self-evaluations (CSE), in adolescents' career formation. Drawing on the relational framework of Cutrona and Russell, the study examined the mediating role of CSE on the relationship between family and parental…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Career Counseling
Adolescent Family Context and Adult Identity Formation
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Benson, Janel E.; Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
This study examines the links between adolescent family context and coming to see oneself as an adult. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the authors investigate how adolescent family structure, resources, and processes together influence adult identity and whether they do so similarly for men and women. The…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Parent Child Relationship, Family Characteristics, Family Influence
The Double Bind Theory of Communication as It Relates to Communication Apprehension and Associated Personality Development.
Nida, Richard Alan – 1976
This study tests the relationship between a set of predictor variables that offer a possible explanation of communication apprehension and a set of criterion variables closely associated with communication apprehension. The predictor variables, emerging from "the double-bind theory of communication," which is concerned with the pathology-producing…
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Doctoral Dissertations
Cultural Differences in the Self Esteem and Adaptation of Spanish-Speaking Second Generation Adolescents.
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Portes, Pedro R.; Zady, Madelon F. – 2000
Development of self-esteem tends to become stable in middle adolescence for mainstream groups, but relatively little is known about self-esteem development of individuals in groups undergoing cultural adaptation, such as Spanish-speaking adolescents. The idea that immigrant students (voluntary minorities) are alike in many psychological and social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Achievement Need, Early Adolescents
The Developmental Interface between Nature and Nurture: A Mutual Influence Model of Child Antisocial Behavior and Parent Behaviors.
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Ge, Xiaojia; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined evidence for reciprocal influence between adoptive parents' behavior and heritable characteristics of adopted children. Found that psychiatric disorders of biological parents were significantly related to children's antisocial/hostile behaviors and consequently with adoptive parents' behavior. Also, the adoptee's antisocial/hostile…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adopted Children