Continuity and Change from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: Adolescence-limited vs. Life-course-persistent Profound Ego Development Arrests.
Participants (n= 36) with consistent Pre-conformist ego development levels during multiple adolescent assessments were studied to determine whether and how their ego levels had changed at age 25. Those (n= 12) whose ego levels remained at the Pre-conformist level were assigned toa life-course-persistent profound ego development arresttrajectory group; those (n= 24) whose ego levels reached the Conformist or Post-conformist level at age 25 were assigned to anadolescence-limited profound ego development arresttrajectory group. Analysis of predictors and age 25 correlates of group membership revealed that selected age 14 family interaction behaviors differentiated the two groups. At age 25, members of the adolescence-limited group showed superior performance on several measures of interpersonal and intrapersonal functioning.
Judge Baker Children's Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Rebecca L
RL
Billings
Judge Baker Children's Center, Harvard Medical School, 53 Parker Hill Avenue, Boston, MA 02120, USA.
Stuart T
ST
Hauser
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Joseph P
JP
Allen
D000293:Adolescent; D004532:Ego; D005195:Family Relations; D006801:Humans; D010379:Peer Group; D010553:Personality Development; D055815:Young Adult
Adolescence; Attachment; Close family and relationships; Ego development; Emerging adulthood; Family contexts; Hostility; Identity; Trajectories