Alan M Jacobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5511668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan M Jacobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobson |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSON A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Joslin Diabetes Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Long Branch of Phase-Environment Fit
Based on the stage-environment fit perspective (Eccles & Midgley), we hypothesized that diabetic adolescents who experience a developmental match would be more likely to experience optimal psychosocial outcomes. Three questions were addressed: Are there links between developmental match and adolescents’psychosocial outcomes, and if so, do such links differ by diabetic status? What are the long-term implications for later psychosocial outcomes of …
Assessment of Diabetes-Related Distress
OBJECTIVE: To describe a new measure of psychosocial adjustment specific to diabetes, the Problem Areas in Diabetes Survey (PAID), and to present initial information on its reliability and validity. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Before their routine clinic appointments, 451 female patients with type I and type II diabetes, all of whom required insulin, completed a self-report survey. Included in the survey was the PAID, a 20-item questionnaire in …
Health-Care-Seeking Behavior
Understanding Family Contexts of Adolescent Coping
Many researchers, including John Hill, have studied parental influences on adolescent development. This sty investigated one aspect of parental influence, ego development, and its relation to adolescent coping. Two different groups of early adolescents were studied, one group from a public high school and the other current inpatients at a psychiatric hospital. This study found that when independently assessed, parental ego development was related…
Adolescent-Parent Interactions in Relation to Adolescents' Gender and Ego Development Pathway
Family communication patterns were examined in relation to adolescents' gender and ego development pathways using sequential analysis techniques. Thirty-two adolescents from a suburban Boston high school participated in a discussion of moral dilemmas with both their mothers and fathers. The family discussions were scored with the Constraining and Enabling Coding System. During the following 4 years, the adolescents' levels of ego development were…
Parental contexts of adolescent self-esteem
Sex differences within the family
An approach to evaluating adolescent adaptive processes
Vulnerability and Resilience in Adolescence
In this paper we consider family aspects of adolescent resilience. It has long been known that there are children who, despite exposure to significant risk factors, show few or no signs of developmental impairment. These children are referred to as "invulnerable' or resilient. A rapidly expanding literature deals with these unexpectedly favorable developmental outcomes. We explore linkages between adolescent development, an important stressor (ch…
Coping Strategies of Families of Seriously Ill Adolescents
This paper compares the coping strategies of two groups of families coping with unusual stresses: families of diabetic adolescents and families of adolescents who were psychiatrically hospitalized in early adolescence. The coping strategies of these two groups of families are also compared to the coping strategies of a group of families of non-patient adolescents. Analyses indicate that families of ill adolescents find a greater variety of coping…
Family contexts of pubertal timing
Familial Contexts of Adolescent Ego Development
In this paper we describe our newly constructed Constraining and Enabling Coding System (CECS). This scheme was constructed to identify family interactions that are conceptually relevant to adolescent ego development. First, we discuss the theoretical rationale and reliability properties of the codes. We then present results of applying the scales to observations of 61 families, consisting of 2 parents and an adolescent, drawn from matched high s…
The influences of chronic illness and ego development on self-esteem in diabetic and psychiatric adolescent patients
Adolescent ego development and family interaction
For structural-developmental psychology to be useful in investigating the relationship between adolescent development and family interaction, its perspective must be expanded to include the role of affect and of cognitively inhibiting behaviors in producing environments for development
The walk-in patient as a 'customer
Fourteen categories of patient requests are described, on the basis of 200 interviews in a walk-in clinic of an urban general hospital. An approach is then proposed by which the patient is treated as a customer whose requests are usually legitimate and always a key part of the clinical negotiations
Adolescent-Parent Interactions in Relation to Adolescents' Gender and Ego Development Pathway
Family communication patterns were examined in relation to adolescents' gender and ego development pathways using sequential analysis techniques. Thirty-two adolescents from a suburban Boston high school participated in a discussion of moral dilemmas with both their mothers and fathers. The family discussions were scored with the Constraining and Enabling Coding System. During the following 4 years, the adolescents' levels of ego development were…
Vulnerability and Resilience in Adolescence
In this paper we consider family aspects of adolescent resilience. It has long been known that there are children who, despite exposure to significant risk factors, show few or no signs of developmental impairment. These children are referred to as "invulnerable' or resilient. A rapidly expanding literature deals with these unexpectedly favorable developmental outcomes. We explore linkages between adolescent development, an important stressor (ch…
Sex differences within the family
The influences of chronic illness and ego development on self-esteem in diabetic and psychiatric adolescent patients
Parental contexts of adolescent self-esteem
An approach to evaluating adolescent adaptive processes
Coping Strategies of Families of Seriously Ill Adolescents
This paper compares the coping strategies of two groups of families coping with unusual stresses: families of diabetic adolescents and families of adolescents who were psychiatrically hospitalized in early adolescence. The coping strategies of these two groups of families are also compared to the coping strategies of a group of families of non-patient adolescents. Analyses indicate that families of ill adolescents find a greater variety of coping…
Understanding Family Contexts of Adolescent Coping
Many researchers, including John Hill, have studied parental influences on adolescent development. This sty investigated one aspect of parental influence, ego development, and its relation to adolescent coping. Two different groups of early adolescents were studied, one group from a public high school and the other current inpatients at a psychiatric hospital. This study found that when independently assessed, parental ego development was related…
Family contexts of pubertal timing
The walk-in patient as a 'customer
Fourteen categories of patient requests are described, on the basis of 200 interviews in a walk-in clinic of an urban general hospital. An approach is then proposed by which the patient is treated as a customer whose requests are usually legitimate and always a key part of the clinical negotiations
Adolescent ego development and family interaction
For structural-developmental psychology to be useful in investigating the relationship between adolescent development and family interaction, its perspective must be expanded to include the role of affect and of cognitively inhibiting behaviors in producing environments for development
Familial Contexts of Adolescent Ego Development
In this paper we describe our newly constructed Constraining and Enabling Coding System (CECS). This scheme was constructed to identify family interactions that are conceptually relevant to adolescent ego development. First, we discuss the theoretical rationale and reliability properties of the codes. We then present results of applying the scales to observations of 61 families, consisting of 2 parents and an adolescent, drawn from matched high s…
The influences of chronic illness and ego development on self-esteem in diabetic and psychiatric adolescent patients
Vulnerability and Resilience in Adolescence
In this paper we consider family aspects of adolescent resilience. It has long been known that there are children who, despite exposure to significant risk factors, show few or no signs of developmental impairment. These children are referred to as "invulnerable' or resilient. A rapidly expanding literature deals with these unexpectedly favorable developmental outcomes. We explore linkages between adolescent development, an important stressor (ch…
Coping Strategies of Families of Seriously Ill Adolescents
This paper compares the coping strategies of two groups of families coping with unusual stresses: families of diabetic adolescents and families of adolescents who were psychiatrically hospitalized in early adolescence. The coping strategies of these two groups of families are also compared to the coping strategies of a group of families of non-patient adolescents. Analyses indicate that families of ill adolescents find a greater variety of coping…
Family contexts of pubertal timing
An approach to evaluating adolescent adaptive processes
Sex differences within the family
Parental contexts of adolescent self-esteem
Adolescent-Parent Interactions in Relation to Adolescents' Gender and Ego Development Pathway
Family communication patterns were examined in relation to adolescents' gender and ego development pathways using sequential analysis techniques. Thirty-two adolescents from a suburban Boston high school participated in a discussion of moral dilemmas with both their mothers and fathers. The family discussions were scored with the Constraining and Enabling Coding System. During the following 4 years, the adolescents' levels of ego development were…
Understanding Family Contexts of Adolescent Coping
Many researchers, including John Hill, have studied parental influences on adolescent development. This sty investigated one aspect of parental influence, ego development, and its relation to adolescent coping. Two different groups of early adolescents were studied, one group from a public high school and the other current inpatients at a psychiatric hospital. This study found that when independently assessed, parental ego development was related…
Assessment of Diabetes-Related Distress
OBJECTIVE: To describe a new measure of psychosocial adjustment specific to diabetes, the Problem Areas in Diabetes Survey (PAID), and to present initial information on its reliability and validity. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Before their routine clinic appointments, 451 female patients with type I and type II diabetes, all of whom required insulin, completed a self-report survey. Included in the survey was the PAID, a 20-item questionnaire in …
Health-Care-Seeking Behavior
The Long Branch of Phase-Environment Fit
Based on the stage-environment fit perspective (Eccles & Midgley), we hypothesized that diabetic adolescents who experience a developmental match would be more likely to experience optimal psychosocial outcomes. Three questions were addressed: Are there links between developmental match and adolescents’psychosocial outcomes, and if so, do such links differ by diabetic status? What are the long-term implications for later psychosocial outcomes of …
Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (13 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Id, ego and super-ego (6 works) · Loevinger's stages of ego development (6 works)