This study has been an attempt to explore the varying levels of success in the Eriksonian developmental stages that adolescents report for themselves in six different cultures in Western Europe and the United States. (Author)

Investigation of the effects of age on the social perceptual ability of 30 learning disabled and 30 non-learning-disabled students (at ages 11, 14, and 17 years) indicated that, though social perceptual ability improved with age for both groups, the proportionate differences between the groups remained constant through age 17. (Author/DB)

Studied children, grades three through twelve, in a community school system. The proportion of group members increases through grade six, then declines, while the proportion of liaisons increases continuously. This finding challenges traditional accounts of the development of cliques. (Author/LHW)

Explored adolescents' perspective of their diabetic management by interviewing 12 adolescent counselors-in-training at a diabetic youth camp. Interviews were analyzed using the constant comparative method; themes were further grouped into three categories: psychosocial, developmental, and clinical. A striking finding throughout the data was the…

Discusses the formulaic sports novels written for adolescents and the genre of such writers as John Tunis, Joe Archibald, William Campbell Gault, and John Carson. Describes several of these author's novels. (NKA)

Notes the lack of fiction geared toward young adolescent males and humorously suggests that what little is available is far too serious in tone and moral viewpoint. (NKA)

Reviews psychological evidence regarding minors' competence to consent to abortion. Covers the following topics: (1) the source and nature of advice regarding the abortion decision; (2) conformity to peer and parent advice; (3) the developmental tasks of adolescence; and (4) reasoning skills. (Author/LHW)

The process theory of lifecareer is discussed, emphasizing that the advancement of career education is linked to advances in understanding the human career and its education. (Author/BL)

Comments on the difficulty of writing novels for adolescents and the writer's efforts to encourage adolescents not to conform, to be responsible for themselves and their friends, and to communicate with adults. (SRT)

Describes the development of the Psychological Separation Inventory and defines four discrete scales reflecting psychological separation: functional, emotional, conflictual, and attitudinal. A study of 150 college students showed conflictual independence was related to personal adjustment, particularly love relationships, while emotional…

Presents three psychological perspectives on youth deviance. Two traditional theoretical approaches to understanding and intervening in delinquent behavior are explained. A third perspective, a youth advocacy approach, is described in the light of cognitive developmental theory. Youth's developmental needs and their opportunity to complete…

The Offer Self-Image Questionnaire was administered to 135 adolescent military family members, ages 13 through 18. The data suggest that the usual demands placed on the military family do not deter the adolescent from developing a healthy self-image. (Author)

Use of strategies to eliminate interference from irrelevant information in memory was investigated for 11-, 15-, and 18-year-olds. A directed forgetting paradigm was introduced. Results suggest that 11-year-olds use adequate selective remembering strategy, but not selective rehearsal: most 15- and 18-year-olds did. (Author/DST)

Issues in studying pubertal events are examined, including whether puberty is best characterized as a social construction or a physical event, whether early adolescence is a transitional or distinct life period, life events associated with puberty, boundaries of early adolescence, and possible models for studying pubertal change. (Author/BW)

Eighty college males were given an expanded identity status interview. The contribution of the two new interpersonal-sexual areas (attitudes towards sexual expression and sex-role beliefs) and the standard three areas (occupation, religion, and politics) was assessed by noting the extent of correspondence. Interpersonal-sexual concerns appear to…