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- Title
The vicissitudes of autonomy in early adolescence.
- Authors
Steinberg, L; Silverberg, S B
- Abstract
A sample of 865 10-16-year-olds from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds completed a questionnaire battery concerning 3 aspects of autonomy: emotional autonomy in relationship with parents, resistance to peer pressure, and the subjective sense of self-reliance. The observed patterns of relations among the measures cast doubt on the notion that autonomy is a unidimensional trait manifested similarly across a variety of situations. For most boys and girls, the transition from childhood into adolescence is marked more by a trading of dependency on parents for dependency on peers, rather than straightforward and unidimensional growth in autonomy. Moreover, contrary to long-standing notions about the greater salience of autonomy to adolescent males than to females, girls score higher than boys on all 3 measures of autonomy at all age levels.
- Publication
Child development, 1986, Vol 57, Issue 4, p841
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1986.tb00250.x