FAMILY CONTEXTS OF ADOLESCENT EGO DEVELOPMENT

该计划导致了以下发现：1） 家庭过程对个人的显著敏感性 父母和青少年的心理发展; 2）差异 在青少年的成熟模式中， 发展轨迹; 3）双亲转化 通过中期青春期的关系;和，4）的作用， 家庭和个人发展在调节 青春期的慢性疾病糖尿病 这4个见解 直接导致我的具体目标，通过实施3 拟议的组成项目：不同路径的家庭背景 一系列关于自我的进一步研究 发展轨迹，重点是解开 青少年自我发展和家庭过程;二。青少年和 青少年社会发展的家庭前因，以发现 青少年时期的家庭和个人力量如何影响社会 发展（依恋，亲密关系的性质， 反社会行为）在成年早期; III.家庭背景 糖尿病青少年的结局。 在实质性和 其他2个项目的方法进展，本组件分析 青少年的新发慢性疾病如何与 与发展和家庭的进程。 它是围绕2 广泛的问题：1）个人和家庭的心理社会如何 维度预测糖尿病特异性结果（糖尿病调整， 依从性、代谢控制和早期并发症）？ （2） 青春期糖尿病的发病如何影响 个体患者及其家庭的发展？ 所有这三个组成部分都基于纵向数据。 的 针对年轻人和糖尿病患者的研究设计包括： 获得新一波理论指导的个人 评估，在一个时间点。 方法包括访谈、自我 报告，同行评级（Q排序），和精确的生物 评估（血红蛋白A1，眼底镜测量， 微量白蛋白）。 统计分析主要是多变量的 方法，包括MANCOVA，分层多元回归， 多元回归和多元判别函数 适当时进行分析。

This program has led to findings that shed light on: 1) the remarkable sensitivity of family processes to the individual psychological development of parents and adolescents; 2) variations in the patterns of maturation of adolescents, distinguished by ego development trajectories; 3) transformations in adolescent-parent relationships through middle adolescence; and, 4) the role of the family and individual development in regulating key aspects of a chronic medical illness in adolescence, diabetes. These 4 insights lead directly to my specific aims, implemented through the 3 proposed component projects: I. Family Contexts of Diverse Paths of Adolescent Development, a set of further studies of ego development trajectories, focusing on unraveling linkages between adolescent ego development and family processes; II. Adolescent and Family Antecedents of Young Adult Social Development, to discover how family and individual forces in adolescence influence social development (attachments, the nature of intimate relationships, antisocial behavior) in early adult years; III. Family Contexts of Outcomes of Diabetic Adolescents. Building on the substantive and methods advances of the other 2 projects, this component analyzes how an adolescent's new-onset chronic medical illness intersects with development and family processes. It is organized around 2 broad questions: 1) How do individual and family psychosocial dimensions predict diabetes-specific outcomes (diabetes adjustment, compliance, metabolic control, and early complications)? and, 2) How does the onset of diabetes in adolescence influence the development of individual patients and their families? All 3 of these components are based on longitudinal data. The research design for the young and diabetic components involve obtaining a new wave of theoretically guided individual assessments, at one time point. Methods include interview, self reporting, peer ratings (Q-sort), and precise biological assessments (hemoglobin A1, Fundoscopic measurements, microalbumin). Statistical analyzes are primarily multivariate approaches, involving MANCOVA, hierarchical multiple regressions, and multiple regressions, and multiple discriminant functions analyses where appropriate.