ADOLESCENT EGO DEVELOPMENT: FAMILY CONTRIBUTIONS

这一拟议项目的目的是系统地调查 家庭互动对青少年两个方面的贡献 心理社会发展：青少年自我发展与青少年自我 流程。对青春期早期的受试者及其父母进行了长达一年的研究 四年的个人心理社会发展和 与发展相关的家庭过程维度。理论上的 发展心理学与家庭过程文学的视角 中嵌入的假设、问题和评估策略 六项拟议的研究。 研究对象是365名高加索中上层和上层阶级的青少年， 他们的父母。青少年在青春期早期进入研究(平均 年龄=14.6岁)，并在接下来的四年里继续下去。这是一个多方面的方法。 学习。年度措施包括：个人自我发展测试(至 青少年和父母)；广泛的临床研究访谈， 为应对和防御过程进行编码；录音的家庭互动 任务和智力测试。转录的家庭讨论如下 使用我们新构造的约束和使能进行客观编码 编码系统(CECS)和家庭权力结构和评估表 刚性/灵活性。 假设和问题通过六项研究进行调查，使用 多元统计程序。这些研究探索人际关系 家庭过程与青少年发展的阶段性关系 改变(如进步、逮捕)以及自我过程的转变。这些 研究对理解促进生长有重要意义 和阻碍成长的家庭经历的特征，以及 家庭对青少年心理社会适应过程的影响。

The purpose of this proposed project is to systematically investigate contributions of family interactions to two facets of adolescent psychosocial development: adolescent ego development and adolescent ego processes. Early adolescent subjects and their parents are studied over a four year period in terms of individual psychosocial development and developmentally relevant family process dimensions. Theoretical perspectives from developmental psychology and family process literature underlie the hypotheses, questions, and assessment strategies embedded in six proposed studies. The subjects are 365 Caucasian upper-middle and upper-class adolescents and their parents. The adolescents enter the study in early adolescence (mean age = 14.6) and continue over the next four years. This is a multi-method study. Annual measures include: individual ego development tests (to adolescents and each parent); an extensive clinical-research interview, coded for coping and defense processes; an audio-taped Family Interaction Task, and intelligence tests. The transcribed family discussions are objectively coded using our newly constructed Constraining and Enabling Coding System (CECS) and assessment scales for family power structure and rigidity/flexibility. Hypotheses and questions are investigated through six studies using multivariate statistical procedures. These studies explore relationships between family processes and adolescent development in terms of stage change (e.g. progression, arrest) as well as ego process shift. These studies have significant implications for understanding growth-enhancing and growth-retarding features of family experience, together with the family's impact upon adolescent psychosocial adaptive processes.