Adolescents' social strategies: patterns and correlates.
An unselected sample of adolescents (n= 504) was given a test measuring their social strategies in affiliative context, and emotional and behavioral problems. Four groups of adolescents were identified according to the certain patterns of the social strategies they deployed: Active optimistic group (n= 107), Defensive functional group (n= 159), Avoiders group (n= 89), and Learned helplessness group (n= 140). The degree of stability of a cluster solution was studied when the method for cluster analysis was changed, showing that the four-cluster solution captures the essential relationships between the variables. The membership of the strategy groups was associated in theoretically meaningful ways to the anxiety/depression, withdrawal, and social problems.
Sondaite
Jolanta
J
Mykolas Romeris University. psk@mruni.lt
Zukauskiene
Rita
R
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006380:Helplessness, Learned; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008097:Lithuania; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012016:Reference Values; D012919:Social Behavior; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D012951:Socialization; D013223:Statistics as Topic