The Teenage world: adolescents' self-image in ten countries

Abstract

Following this introduction the book is divided into five chapters dealing with theory study method results discussion and appendices of the data. The theory chapter includes an extensive review of the literature on theories of the self in adolescence cross-cultural studies of adolescents and research issues in comparative studies. That on method describes our approach to data analysis and statistics as well as a description of the ten countries where the study was undertaken. The results chapter contains our findings. We focus on the universal characteristics as well as on gender age and national differences. We also examine the prevalence rate of depression in the ten countries as well as the relationships of self-image patterns to economic and demographic factors. The discussion chapter integrates our findings with the current status of adolescent psychology as well as raising a new agenda for the future. The appendices contain the Internal OSIQ items (back-translated) their percent endorsements and the alphas and means of the scales. (excerpt)

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