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Peer reviewedWills, Byron S. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
The study determined the relationship between level of self-actualization and self-concept, values, and achievement motivation. Multiple discriminant analysis was used to examine 150 male and 150 female college freshmen who had three levels of self-actualization. The males and females differed significantly in their level of self-actualization.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Motivation, Personality Development, Self Actualization
Peer reviewedGnagey, William J. – Adolescence, 1980
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Motivation
Peer reviewedFarber, Ruth S. – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1996
Attempts to integrate career, family, and developmental theories using a family developmental psychology perspective. Looks at the synthesis of individual, interactional, and intergenerational forces that influence the career development of women, and discusses potentially inhibitory or facilitative conditions for the career growth of women. Case…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Case Studies, Counseling Theories
Peer reviewedLyons, Nona Plessner – Harvard Educational Review, 1983
The author offers interview data from female and male children, adolescents, and adults in support of the notion of having two distinct modes of describing the self in relation to others--separate/objective and connected--as well as two kinds of considerations used by individuals in making moral decisions--justice and care. (Author/SSH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Generation Gap, Human Relations, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedGrotevant, Harold D.; Cooper, Catherine R. – Child Development, 1985
Developed a model of individuation in family relationships focused on communicative processes. Expressions of four dimensions of the model (self-esteem, separateness, permeability, and mutuality) were predicted to be positively associated with identity exploration in adolescents. Analysis of observations of families in a Family Interaction Task…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Family Environment, Family Relationship, Fathers
Moffitt, Mary Anne – 1986
Romance novels have become increasingly popular and sexually explicit, in part because women may gain a sense of self through reading them and perhaps in reaction to the patriarchal structure of society. Women may seek escape and a sense of self-identity through the novels'"larger-than-life" characters and predictable endings. Readers of…
Descriptors: Females, Identification (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship, Literary Criticism
Frydenberg, Erica – 1997
Defining coping as the cognitive and behavioral strategies used to deal with the demands of everyday living, this book explores the research on how young people manage a range of life problems. Following an introduction discussing the particular aspects of adolescent coping behavior, motivation, and attitudes, the book is divided into eleven…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior
