title: Ethnic similarities and differences in the association of emotional autonomy and adolescent outcomes: comparing Euro-American and Asian-American adolescents.
abstract: This study has conducted an ethnic comparison on the strength of the association between Individuation, a subscale from the Emotional Autonomy construct presented originally by Steinberg and Silverberg in 1986, and adolescent outcomes in terms of self-esteem and susceptibility to negative peer pressure. Consistent with what was expected, the association between Individuation and lowered self-esteem was more salient among 287 Asian-American adolescent boys than among 1,353 Euro-American adolescent boys. Contrary to what was hypothesized, the association between Individuation and susceptibility to negative peer pressure was more pronounced among 1,573 Euro-American adolescent girls than among 292 Asian-American adolescent girls.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-4351, USA. zchen@unix.tamu.edu
authors.forename: Z Y
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001208:Asia / Q000208:ethnology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D004644:Emotions; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005060:Europe / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D008297:Male; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States