Nancy L Galambos
Biographic Data
| ID | 90964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy L Galambos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Galambos |
| SIGNATURE | GALAMBOS N L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2371-1449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 605 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Self-rated mental health in the transition to adulthood predicts depressive symptoms in midlife
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years
Trajectories of perceived stress from the transition to adulthood (age 25), during young adulthood (age 32), and into midlife (ages 43 and 50) were examined with four waves of longitudinal survey data ( N = 688; 49% female, 37% with a university degree, 86% White). We explored how between- and within-person variation in perceived stress was associated with age 50 psychological well-being (life satisfaction and eudaimonic well-being), self-reporte…
Another Attempt to Move Beyond the Cross-Sectional U Shape of Happiness: A Reply
In this reply to Blanchflower and Graham (2021), we address key points in their response to our article, which challenged the robustness of the U shape in different contexts and aimed to move scholarship on life-course happiness beyond a focus on a single cross-sectional curve. We attend to apparent misconceptions in their portrayal of our arguments, identify points of agreement, and emphasize the value of exploring diversity rather than searchin…
Parent–Child Contact, Closeness, and Conflict Across the Transition to Adulthood
Objective This study examined whether youth and parent perceptions of parent–child contact, closeness, and conflict change during the transition to adulthood, and how perceived parent–child relations vary as a function of life course experiences such as residential, education, and relationship status. Background The parent–child relationship is one of the most influential and long‐lasting social ties. Much research on this relationship focuses on…
Family context, life transitions, and subjective well-being from age 18 to 50 years
This study examined how family context at age 18 (parent-adolescent conflict, parental support, parent education) predicted between-person variation in subjective well-being (SWB; depressive symptoms and self-esteem) trajectories from age 18 to 50 years. Timing of leaving home, getting married, and becoming a parent were explored as life transitions linking family context to within-person variation in SWB. The sample consisted of 604 participants…
Intrinsically Rewarding Work and Generativity in Midlife: The Long Arm of the Job
Work is a productive activity that can also contribute to the well-being of the next generation. Using two waves of data from the Edmonton Transitions Study, this research examined the link between intrinsically rewarding work and generativity, or one's perceived contributions to society. Controlling for relevant variables, more intrinsically rewarding work at age 43 predicted increasing generativity over the next seven years, and increases in in…
The U Shape of Happiness Across the Life Course: Expanding the Discussion
The notion of a U shape in happiness—that well-being is highest for people in their 20s, decreases to its nadir in midlife, and then rises into old age—has captured the attention of the media, which often cite it as evidence for a midlife crisis. We argue that support for the purported U shape is not as robust and generalizable as is often assumed and present our case with the following arguments: (a) Cross-sectional studies are inadequate for dr…
Convoys of perceived support from adolescence to midlife
Data from 963 Canadians at ages 18 (late adolescence), 25 (young adulthood), and 43 (midlife) were used to explore convoys of perceived social support from parents, other family, friends, partners, coworkers, and children. Latent profile and latent transition analyses revealed two support profiles at each age, distinguished by amount of family support. Those with high family support had a high likelihood (approximately 80%) of remaining in that p…
Wanting To Be Remembered: Intrinsically Rewarding Work and Generativity in Early Midlife
Previous research on generativity, the desire to leave a legacy through establishing and guiding the next generation, has focused primarily on family life and civic engagement as pathways to midlife generativity. This paper proposes that intrinsically rewarding work can also be associated with a heightened sense of generativity in midlife. We test this hypothesis with data ( n = 369 employed individuals, approximately 43 years old) from the 2010 …
Enlightenment or status defence? Education and social problem concerns from adolescence to midlife
This paper asks whether concerns about social problems decline with age. Unconditional growth models (without covariates) revealed a decline over 25 years (age 18 to 43) in concerns about racial discrimination, treatment of Aboriginal Peoples, female job discrimination, unemployment and environmental pollution. Educational attainment was not associated with these change trajectories in conditional control models, providing no support for enlighte…
The Rise and Fall of Depressive Symptoms and Academic Stress in Two Samples of University Students
The anger–depression connection: Between-persons and within-person associations from late adolescence to midlife
Six waves of data from 944 Canadian high school seniors surveyed for 25 years (age 18 to 43) were analyzed to compare three models of the temporal associations between expressed anger and depressive symptoms (anger→depression; depression→anger; anger↔depression) and a between-persons differences only model (↑anger = ↑depression). Perceived availability of social support was examined as a mediator of the anger-depression association. Random interc…
Trajectories of perceived support from family, friends, and lovers in the transition to adulthood
Trajectories of perceived support from family, friends, and lovers were examined in 923 high school seniors surveyed across the transition to adulthood (ages 18, 19, 20, 22, and 25). Growth models revealed a cubic pattern of support from family members, which peaked at age 20, no change in friend support, and a linear decrease in lover support. Women reported higher levels of support than did men for all sources except fathers. Over time, friend …
Quick, uncertain, and delayed adults: Timing, sequencing and duration of youth-adult transitions in Canada
The transition from youth to adulthood in western societies has become more prolonged and complex as traditional societal norms have lost influence. Using retrospective data from a cohort of 43-year-old Canadians surveyed in 2010 (n = 405), we mapped the timing, sequencing, and duration of ‘first stage’ youth-adult transitions (leaving home, finishing formal education, obtaining a full-time job) and ‘second stage’ youth-adult transitions (marriag…
Time, Money, or Gender? Predictors of the Division of Household Labour Across Life Stages
Pathways between self-esteem and depression in couples
Guided by concepts from a relational developmental perspective, this study examined intra- and interpersonal associations between self-esteem and depressive symptoms in a sample of 1,407 couples surveyed annually across 6 years in the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relations and Family Dynamics (pairfam) study. Autoregressive cross-lagged model results demonstrated that self-esteem predicted future depressive symptoms for male partners at all times, …
Tracking affect and academic success across university: Happy students benefit from bouts of negative mood
We examined how positive and negative affect covary within individuals over time and how patterns of association between affective traits and states relate to academic success across 4 years of university. Participants were 187 full-time first-year students at a large Canadian university who completed questionnaires about recent affective experiences in 6 waves across 4 years. Grade point average for each year of study was provided by the registr…
Self‐esteem trajectories across 25 years and midlife intimate relations
Guided by a life‐span developmental systems approach, this study examined links between self‐esteem assessed over 25 years and adaptive interaction and relationship risk at midlife using data from 341 Canadian adults surveyed (or followed) from ages 18 to 43. Results showed higher self‐esteem at age 18 was associated with more adaptive interactions and lower perceived relationship risk at age 43. A more rapid increase in self‐esteem through the t…
Growth in perceived control across 25 years from the late teens to midlife: The role of personal and parents’ education
This study examined trajectories of perceived control and their association with parents' education and personal educational experience (educational attainment and years of full-time postsecondary education) in 971 Canadian high school seniors tracked 7 times across 25 years. Latent growth models showed that, on average, perceived control increased from age 18 to age 25 and decreased by age 32, with a further slower decrease by age 43. Parents' e…
Up, not down: The age curve in happiness from early adulthood to midlife in two longitudinal studies
Happiness is an important indicator of well-being, and little is known about how it changes in the early adult years. We examined trajectories of happiness from early adulthood to midlife in 2 Canadian longitudinal samples: high school seniors followed from ages 18-43 and university seniors followed from ages 23-37. Happiness increased into the 30s in both samples, with a slight downturn by age 43 in the high school sample. The rise in happiness …
Exploring or Floundering? The Meaning of Employment and Educational Fluctuations in Emerging Adulthood
Youth today spend years moving in and out of different education and employment statuses until they settle into stable employment. This 14-year Canadian longitudinal study reveals how month-to-month fluctuations in employment and educational statuses from age 19 to 25 predict employment success at age 32. Early employment instability was linked to lower income at age 32 and, among men, to lower occupational status and career satisfaction. However…
Bottom dogs on campus: How subjective age and extrinsic self-esteem relate to affect and stress in first semester of university
The first semester of university can be a difficult transitional period that affects students' psychological well-being, and ultimately, their academic success. Personal resources and vulnerabilities that they bring to the transition may shape their day-to-day experiences. Subjective age (how old one feels) and extrinsic self-esteem (ESE; the extent to which self-worth is based on external sources) were examined as predictors of mean levels of an…
Developmental trajectories of work values and job entitlement beliefs in the transition to adulthood
Employing a life span developmental systems perspective, this study used a 5-wave (1985-1992) Canadian longitudinal data set (N = 404) to examine trajectories of intrinsic and extrinsic work values and job entitlement beliefs from age 18 to 25. Piecewise growth models (Slope 1: age 18-20; Slope 2: age 20-25) showed intriguing patterns of change. Unconditional and conditional models suggested downward trends in all 3 measures from age 18 to 20. Af…
Paths to Intimate Relationship Quality From Parent-Adolescent Relations and Mental Health
Using a developmental systems perspective and public-use longitudinal data from participants currently in a romantic relationship at Wave 4 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 2,970), the current study explored direct and indirect paths from parent-adolescent relationship quality to young adult intimate relationship quality. Structural equation modeling tested whether mental health (depressive symptoms and self-esteem) in…
Social, Demographic, and Health Outcomes in the 10 Years Following Adolescent Depression
Depression, self-esteem, and anger in emerging adulthood: Seven-year trajectories
This study used a school-based community sample (N=920) to examine trajectories of depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and expressed anger in the critical years of emerging adulthood (ages 18-25). Using data from 5 waves, the authors discovered that multilevel models indicated that, on average, depressive symptoms and expressed anger declined, whereas self-esteem increased. Between-persons predictors of variability in trajectories included gender (…
The Attitudes Toward Women Scale for Adolescents (Awsa): A study of reliability and validity
Body Dissatisfaction of Adolescent Girls and Boys: Risk and Resource Factors
The objective of this study was to identify risk and resource factors related to body dissatisfaction for girls and boys in early adolescence. Participants were 91 girls and 79 boys in Grades 7 and 10 who were participants in the second wave of a 3-year longitudinal study of adolescents' psychosocial maturity. Separate hierarchical regressions were conducted for girls and boys. Three risk factors for girls' body dissatisfaction were identified: w…
Time, Money, or Gender? Predictors of the Division of Household Labour Across Life Stages
Parents' Work Overload and Problem Behavior in Young Adolescents
This investigation examined a three-stage spillover process in which parents' stress and parent-adolescent relations mediated a link between parents' work overload and adolescent problem behavior. Adolescents in dual-earner families reported on parent-adolescent relations and their own problem behavior. Their parents provided reports of work overload, levels of stress, and parent-adolescent relations. Regression analyses revealed some support for…
Out-of-school care of young adolescents and self-reported behavior
Sixth graders in adult care during out-of-school hours were contrasted with 6th graders in self-care situations, on 2 occasions, winter and summer (N=112). Hierarchical multiple regression analyses examined how well out-of-school care situations predicted 3 dimensions each of peer experience and self-image, concurrently and longitudinally. Additional analyses assessed the role of parent-adolescent relations in moderating the relation between self…
Young Adolescents' Perceptions of the Family Environment
The physical, cognitive, and social changes associated with early adolescence may have implications for the nature of family relationships. However, little information is available regarding the family context of early adolescent development. The purpose of this study is to provide preliminary descriptive data on the family environment during early adolescence. A sample of 335 youngsters from middle to upper-middle class families were interviewed…
Chronological and Subjective Age in Emerging Adulthood: The Crossover Effect
This study explored the relationship between chronological age and subjective age in emerging adulthood. Predictors of variability in subjective age were also examined. A sample of 190 university students (140 females, 50 males) ages 17 to 29 completed questionnaires assessing their subjective age, psychosocial maturity, number of role transitions, financial dependence, economic pressure, and alcohol use. There was a negative linear relationship …
Risky Business: The Paradoxical Meaning of Problem Behavior for Young Adolescents
Concurrent and longitudinal relations among Canadian adolescents' problem behavior (PB), self-image, and peer relations were examined. The relationship of adolescents' perceptions of fun and risk with their PB also were explored. A total of 96 young adolescents (mean age at Time 1 = 11.6 years) completed questionnaires on four occasions spanning 3 1/2 years. Measures were PB (disobeying parents, school misconduct, substance use, antisocial behavi…
Paths to Intimate Relationship Quality From Parent-Adolescent Relations and Mental Health
Using a developmental systems perspective and public-use longitudinal data from participants currently in a romantic relationship at Wave 4 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 2,970), the current study explored direct and indirect paths from parent-adolescent relationship quality to young adult intimate relationship quality. Structural equation modeling tested whether mental health (depressive symptoms and self-esteem) in…
Work values and beliefs of ‘Generation X’ and ‘Generation Y’
This study examined cohort differences and intraindividual change in the intrinsic and extrinsic work values and job entitlement beliefs of Canadian high school seniors (classes of 1985 and 1996, representing ‘Generation X’ and ‘Generation Y’, respectively) surveyed at age 18 and again at age 25. The 1996 cohort placed more value on extrinsic work rewards (at age 25) and reported stronger job entitlement beliefs. Intrinsic work values increased i…
Trajectories of perceived support from family, friends, and lovers in the transition to adulthood
Trajectories of perceived support from family, friends, and lovers were examined in 923 high school seniors surveyed across the transition to adulthood (ages 18, 19, 20, 22, and 25). Growth models revealed a cubic pattern of support from family members, which peaked at age 20, no change in friend support, and a linear decrease in lover support. Women reported higher levels of support than did men for all sources except fathers. Over time, friend …
Mother role satisfaction, mother–child interaction, and child temperament: A process model
Adolescents’ internalizing and aggressive behaviors and perceptions of parents’ psychological control: A panel study examining direction of effects
Losing Sleep Over It: Daily Variation in Sleep Quantity and Quality in Canadian Students' First Semester of University
Daily covariation of sleep quantity and quality with affective, stressful, academic, and social experiences were observed in a sample of Canadian 17–19‐year‐olds in their first year of university. Participants ( N =191) completed web‐based checklists for 14 consecutive days during their first semester. Multilevel models predicting sleep quantity and quality from daily experiences indicated that more time on schoolwork, expecting a test, and alcoh…
Adolescents' Characteristics and Parents' Beliefs as Predictors of Parentsapos; Peer Management Behaviors
This study examined parents' reported use of peer management behaviors (i.e., communicating preferences, communicating disapproval, supporting friendships, and information seeking) and linked these behaviors to (a) adolescentsapos; self‐reported psychosocial adjustment and friendships and (b) parents' beliefs about adolescents' peer relationships (i.e., perceived efficacy in managing adolescents' friendships and concerns about adolescents' friend…
Women's Work Conditions and Marital Adjustment in Two-Earner Couples: A Structural Model
s must be postmarked by January 29, 1993. For submission guidelines and conference details, contact Dr. Faith Parker, Project Director, NCJW Center for the Child, 53 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10010, (212) 645-4048. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.114 on Thu, 26 May 2016 06:17:40 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Examining Father Involvement and the Quality of Father-Adolescent Relations
This investigation examined whether (a) father involvement was associated with acceptance and conflict in father-adolescent relations, (b) fathers' depression moderated this relationship, and (c) father involvement accounted for father-mother differences in acceptance and conflict. Subjects were 91 father-mother-adolescent triads who completed questionnaires about the nature of parent-adolescent relations at two points in time, 6 months apart. Re…
Income Change, Parental Life Outlook, and Adolescent Expectations for Job Success
The present investigation examines the relationship between income change in the early 1980s, the outlook that parents have about their general life situation, and the extent to which adolescents expect to attain job success. In a sample of 112 West German families, correlations showed that income loss was associated with pessimistic life outlooks in fathers and mothers. The father's pessimism was highly related to the mother's pessimism and to t…
Quick, uncertain, and delayed adults: Timing, sequencing and duration of youth-adult transitions in Canada
The transition from youth to adulthood in western societies has become more prolonged and complex as traditional societal norms have lost influence. Using retrospective data from a cohort of 43-year-old Canadians surveyed in 2010 (n = 405), we mapped the timing, sequencing, and duration of ‘first stage’ youth-adult transitions (leaving home, finishing formal education, obtaining a full-time job) and ‘second stage’ youth-adult transitions (marriag…
Growth in perceived control across 25 years from the late teens to midlife: The role of personal and parents’ education
This study examined trajectories of perceived control and their association with parents' education and personal educational experience (educational attainment and years of full-time postsecondary education) in 971 Canadian high school seniors tracked 7 times across 25 years. Latent growth models showed that, on average, perceived control increased from age 18 to age 25 and decreased by age 32, with a further slower decrease by age 43. Parents' e…
Exploring or Floundering? The Meaning of Employment and Educational Fluctuations in Emerging Adulthood
Youth today spend years moving in and out of different education and employment statuses until they settle into stable employment. This 14-year Canadian longitudinal study reveals how month-to-month fluctuations in employment and educational statuses from age 19 to 25 predict employment success at age 32. Early employment instability was linked to lower income at age 32 and, among men, to lower occupational status and career satisfaction. However…
Depression and Anger Trajectories During the Transition to Adulthood
The current study examined within-person (transitions in living situation and parent status) and between-persons (age, gender, parent education) predictors of trajectories of depressive and angry symptoms in 577 university graduates (ages 20 to 29) tracked for 7 years. Multilevel models determined that depressive and angry symptoms declined on average. Depressive symptoms were associated with leaving home when younger and living with parents when…
Pathways between self-esteem and depression in couples
Guided by concepts from a relational developmental perspective, this study examined intra- and interpersonal associations between self-esteem and depressive symptoms in a sample of 1,407 couples surveyed annually across 6 years in the Panel Analysis of Intimate Relations and Family Dynamics (pairfam) study. Autoregressive cross-lagged model results demonstrated that self-esteem predicted future depressive symptoms for male partners at all times, …
Adolescents' Subjective Age: An Indicator of Perceived Maturity
Two studies investigated the relation between adolescents' subjective age and their self-reported problem behavior, autonomy, and peer relationships. In Study 1, an older subjective age among 15-year-old girls and boys was correlated significantly and positively with several problem behaviors (e.g., substance use), behavioral autonomy, and aspects of peer relationships such as association with deviant peers and involvement with other-sex peers. I…
Young Adolescents' Perceptions of the Family Environment
The physical, cognitive, and social changes associated with early adolescence may have implications for the nature of family relationships. However, little information is available regarding the family context of early adolescent development. The purpose of this study is to provide preliminary descriptive data on the family environment during early adolescence. A sample of 335 youngsters from middle to upper-middle class families were interviewed…
The Attitudes Toward Women Scale for Adolescents (Awsa): A study of reliability and validity
Mother role satisfaction, mother–child interaction, and child temperament: A process model
Mother role satisfaction, mother-child interaction, and child temperament: A process model
Temperament and maternal employment
The use of a model of bi-directional person-context relations may be illustrated by analysis of the literature on the relations between child temperament and maternal employment
Substance Use in West German Youth: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents' Use of Alcohol and Tobacco
The present investigation examined the relationship between substance use and the adolescent's experiences with peers, family, and school. Subjects were two cohorts of normal adolescents (one in early and the other in middle adolescence) participating in the Berlin Youth Longitudinal Study in West Germany. Results of cross-sectional analyses indicated that involvement with deviant peers and perceptions of school failure were linked to greater sub…
Income Change, Parental Life Outlook, and Adolescent Expectations for Job Success
The present investigation examines the relationship between income change in the early 1980s, the outlook that parents have about their general life situation, and the extent to which adolescents expect to attain job success. In a sample of 112 West German families, correlations showed that income loss was associated with pessimistic life outlooks in fathers and mothers. The father's pessimism was highly related to the mother's pessimism and to t…
Role Strain in West German Dual-Earner Households
Masculinity, Femininity, and Sex Role Attitudes in Early Adolescence: Exploring Gender Intensification
Nancy L. Galambos, David M. Almeida, Anne C. Petersen, Masculinity, Femininity, and Sex Role Attitudes in Early Adolescence: Exploring Gender Intensification, Child Development, Vol. 61, No. 6 (Dec., 1990), pp. 1905-1914
Putting Mothers' Work-Related Stress in Perspective: Mothers and Adolescents in Dual-Earner Families
The present study examined whether mothers' work-related and global stress (e.g., depressed affect) were associated with changes in mother-adolescent relations across a 6-month period and whether mothers' stress and mother-adolescent relations predicted the adolescent's psychosocial adjustment. Subjects were mothers and early adolescents (sixth graders) in 96 dual-earner families. Mothers completed questionnaires assessing work-related and global…
Examining Father Involvement and the Quality of Father-Adolescent Relations
This investigation examined whether (a) father involvement was associated with acceptance and conflict in father-adolescent relations, (b) fathers' depression moderated this relationship, and (c) father involvement accounted for father-mother differences in acceptance and conflict. Subjects were 91 father-mother-adolescent triads who completed questionnaires about the nature of parent-adolescent relations at two points in time, 6 months apart. Re…
Out-of-school care of young adolescents and self-reported behavior
Sixth graders in adult care during out-of-school hours were contrasted with 6th graders in self-care situations, on 2 occasions, winter and summer (N=112). Hierarchical multiple regression analyses examined how well out-of-school care situations predicted 3 dimensions each of peer experience and self-image, concurrently and longitudinally. Additional analyses assessed the role of parent-adolescent relations in moderating the relation between self…
Women's Work Conditions and Marital Adjustment in Two-Earner Couples: A Structural Model
s must be postmarked by January 29, 1993. For submission guidelines and conference details, contact Dr. Faith Parker, Project Director, NCJW Center for the Child, 53 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10010, (212) 645-4048. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.114 on Thu, 26 May 2016 06:17:40 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Does Parent-Adolescent Conflict Increase in Early Adolescence
This investigation assessed family perceptions of parent-adolescent conflict four times from grade 6 to the summer following grade 8. Mothers, fathers, and adolescents (n = 80 families) reported on parent-adolescent conflict in five domains: chores, appearance, politeness, finances, and substance use. Conflict over chores, appearance, and politeness decreased over 2.5 years whereas conflict over finances increased. Substance use conflict remained…
Continuity and change in father-adolescent relations
Over a period of two and one-half years, father-adolescent relations remained relatively stable in rank-order, but mean levels of child care, acceptance, and conflict decreased. These results imply changing functions of fathers in the lives of adolescents
Alternative Structural Models for Understanding Adolescent Problem Behavior in Two-Earner Families
Longitudinal relations among Canadian adolescents' problem behavior, conflict with parents, and association with deviant peers were examined using covariance structure analysis with manifest variables (path analysis). Ninety young adolescents (mean age at Time I = 11.6 years) and their employed mothers and fathers completed questionnaires at three times of measurement spanning I year. Evaluation of the global and relative goodness-of-fit of compe…
Parents' Work Overload and Problem Behavior in Young Adolescents
This investigation examined a three-stage spillover process in which parents' stress and parent-adolescent relations mediated a link between parents' work overload and adolescent problem behavior. Adolescents in dual-earner families reported on parent-adolescent relations and their own problem behavior. Their parents provided reports of work overload, levels of stress, and parent-adolescent relations. Regression analyses revealed some support for…
Face-to-Face Interactions in Unacquainted Female-Male Adolescent Dyads: How Do Girls and Boys Behave
Verbal and nonverbal behaviors of adolescents interacting in female-male dyads were examined for gender and context (i.e., topic of discussion) differences. Thirty dyads, comprised of unacquainted 15-year-olds, discussed a masculine, feminine, and gender-neutral task for 3 minutes each. The videotaped interactions were coded for verbal (questions, uncertainty, speaking time) and nonverbal (gestures, head/facial touches, smiling, gazing) behaviors…
Risky Business: The Paradoxical Meaning of Problem Behavior for Young Adolescents
Concurrent and longitudinal relations among Canadian adolescents' problem behavior (PB), self-image, and peer relations were examined. The relationship of adolescents' perceptions of fun and risk with their PB also were explored. A total of 96 young adolescents (mean age at Time 1 = 11.6 years) completed questionnaires on four occasions spanning 3 1/2 years. Measures were PB (disobeying parents, school misconduct, substance use, antisocial behavi…
Adolescent Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Research, Programs, and Policies
The basic process of adolescent development involves changing relations between the individual and the multiple levels of the context within which the young person is embedded. Variation in the substance and timing of these relations promotes diversity in adolescence and represents sources of risk or protective factors across this life period. The key risk factors of the contempory American adolescent period are discussed. Behavioral risks involv…
Adolescents' Perceptions of Parents' Work and Adolescents' Work Values in Two-Earner Families
Examined in this study were relations among adolescents `perceptions of parents' work conditions (e.g., work overload) and work-related affect (e.g., job satisfaction), adolescents' respect for parents' work, and adolescents' work values. Participants were 81 young adolescents and their mothers and fathers in two-earner families, all of whom took part in a longitudinal study in which questionnaire data were collected. Results were that on several…
Adolescents' Subjective Age: An Indicator of Perceived Maturity
Two studies investigated the relation between adolescents' subjective age and their self-reported problem behavior, autonomy, and peer relationships. In Study 1, an older subjective age among 15-year-old girls and boys was correlated significantly and positively with several problem behaviors (e.g., substance use), behavioral autonomy, and aspects of peer relationships such as association with deviant peers and involvement with other-sex peers. I…
Adolescents' Psychosocial Maturity, Problem Behavior, and Subjective Age: In Search of the Adultoid
The objectives of this study were to seek empirical confirmation for the existence of a group of adolescents whose maturity status could be labeled as adultoid, and to identify psychosocial correlates of adolescents' maturity status. Cluster analysis of questionnaire data from 209 predominantly White adolescents (10-18 years old) in working- and middle-class 2-parent families identified 3 maturity status groups: adultoids (low psychosocial maturi…
Parents Do Matter: Trajectories of Change in Externalizing and Internalizing Problems in Early Adolescence
This study examined the relative influence of three parenting behaviors (support, behavioral control, and psychological control) and deviant peers on trajectories of externalizing and internalizing problems in early adolescence. A white, working-to-middle-class sample of adolescents and their mothers and fathers in two-earner families participated in a 31⁄2-year longitudinal study (N=lies). The study began when the adolescents were in sixth grade…
Culture and Conceptions of Adulthood
Common themes and variations across the studies in the previous chapters are considered, with a focus on how culture influences conceptions of what it means to be an adult
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