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Ellis, Mavonna; And Others – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1991
Examined relationship between psychosocial development, gender, and prealcoholism in 100 college students. Findings showed no statistically significant relationship between psychosocial development and prealcoholism but revealed a definite relationship between gender and higher scores on MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale indicating prealcoholism, such…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, College Students, Higher Education, Personality Development

Thomas, Jeanne L. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1989
Interviewed 301 grandparents concerning their relationship with one grandchild. Findings revealed no differences in relationship associated with grandchild gender or with maternal/paternal grandparent status; nor were there significant interaction effects. Grandmothers expressed greater satisfaction than did grandfathers; grandfathers stressed…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Family Relationship, Grandchildren, Grandparents

Katainen, Saara; Raikkonen, Katri; Keltikangas- Jarvinen, Liisa – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1998
Describes a nine-year longitudinal study of childhood temperament dimensions and mothers' child rearing attitudes. Discusses the measures studied and the models used for analysis. Suggests that the development of temperament is influenced by the mother's hostile parenting attitudes as well as childhood temperament and that there are sex-related…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Children, Longitudinal Studies

Gnagey, William J. – Adolescence, 1980
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Motivation

Heilbrun, Alfred B., Jr.; Bailey, Becky A. – Sex Roles, 1986
Examination of self-descriptions of 1,623 undergraduates (collectedd in 1958-64, 1970-74, and 1977-82) failed to support the prevailing assumption that masculinity and femininity develop independently. Rather, a positive relation was found between the presence of masculine and feminine traits within the same individual even when gender and state…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Femininity, Feminism, Masculinity

Moore, DeWayne; Hotch, Deborah F. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1982
Among late adolescent males, parental divorce was highly related to Emotional separation as a home-leaving indicator; for females, being a firstborn was associated with Personal Control as a home-leaving indicator. These findings supported previous research indicating that males experience more adjustment problems after parental divorce than…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Divorce, Parent Child Relationship

Rybak, Christopher J.; Russell-Chapin, Lori A.; Moser, Mildred E. – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 2000
Jungian gender development theory provides the means to view the individuation process and how it is influenced by gender. Explains how women must come to understand what it means to be female and to recognize masculine components of their personality, just as men must understand their development. Suggests counselors have a responsibility to…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Counselor Role, Females, Gender Issues

Steinberg, Laurence – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Data for this study of 108 young adults from the New York Longitudinal Study include measures of temperament derived from two sources: interviews conducted with subjects' mothers when the children were 3 and 4 years of age and measures of Type A behavior derived from interviews with the subjects during young adulthood. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Interviews, Personality Development, Personality Studies

Smith, Patricia E.; And Others – Adolescence, 1984
Examined similarities and differences in like-sex and unlike-sex parent-adolescent modeling. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories were administered to 59 emotionally disturbed adolescents and their mothers. Results showed that the mother-daughter profiles were very similar but the mother-son profiles were dissimilar. The mother-daughter…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Brown, Michael T.; Helms, Janet E. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1986
Investigated the impact of developmental concerns on 140 college students' self-disclosure using an instrument based on Erikson's psychosocial theory of development. Results indicated two developmental issues were found to be significant predictors of willingness to disclose problems to fathers and to same- and opposite-sex friends. (Author/BL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Developmental Tasks, Higher Education

Glazer, Carol Ann; Dusek, Jerome B. – Sex Roles, 1985
The relationship between sex role orientation and psychological adjustment was assessed in a study of college students. Androgynous subjects had higher adjustment scores than those with masculine or feminine orientation. Suggests that findings about the relationship between sex roles and adjustment may be closely tied to the expressive or…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Developmental Stages, Mental Health, Personality Development

Whitbourne, Susan Krauss; Waterman, Alan S. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
A partial sequential design was used to study personality development over a 10-year-period. Data on the Inventory of Psychosocial Development were collected from: a sample of college students in 1966; the same sample as alumni in 1976; and a sample of undergraduates in 1976. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Age, Cohort Analysis

Meeus, Wim; Dekovic, Maja – Adolescence, 1995
Dutch adolescents, ages 12 to 14, completed the Utrect-Groningen Identity Development Scale, which encompasses separate scales for commitment in exploration for relational, school, and occupational identity. Results show that relational identity becomes consistently stronger as adolescents age, and that for girls, relational identity is much more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Career Choice, Higher Education

Hodgson, James W.; Fischer, Judith L. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1979
College males and females were given measures of identity status, intimacy status, and self-esteem. Males were found to focus on intrapersonal aspects of identity, females on interpersonal aspects. The pursuit of various identity development pathways affected self-esteem differentially each sex. Sex differences in intimacy were also found.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Personality Development, Personality Measures

Kim, Sooyeon; Brody, Gene H.; Murry, Velma McBride – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2003
Applied confirmatory factor analysis in a test of alternative factor models and measurement invariance across gender groups, using data from the Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire focusing on shyness, high-intensity pleasure, activity level, attention, irritability, and fear. Found that factor models based on composite indicators showed…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Factor Structure, Models, Personality