[Ego development in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood: an empirical comparative study of psychiatric patients and healthy control probands].
The model of ego development by Loevinger describes an epigenetic series of successive stages comprising increasingly complex styles of impulse control, interpersonal relationships, moral and cognitive reasoning. This model offers an opportunity to explore the structural premises young adults rely on solving their developmental tasks. Controls compared to patients show a significantly superior intrapsychic coping, awareness of social rules and knowledge of interpersonal relations. Except non-psychotic patients who seem to dispose of slightly more mature ego capacities than psychotic patients there prevails a dominant psychosocial immaturity among all patient subgroups however. The results are discussed in relation to psychopathological syndromes, the actual status of a psychiatric illness, and differently favourable patterns of psychosocial adaptation defined by results in the Offer-Self-Image-Questionnaire.
Psychiatrische Klinik, Universität Münster.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010553:Personality Development; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment
Ich-Entwicklung im Ubergang von Jugend und jungem Erwachsenenalter: Eine empirische Vergleichsstudie bei psychiatrischen Patienten und gesunden Kontrollprobanden.