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Peer reviewedSteinberg, Laurence; Silverberg, Susan B. – Child Development, 1986
Examines the development of, and interrelations among, three types of autonomy during the transition from childhood into adolescence: emotional autonomy in relationships with parents, resistance to peer pressure, and the subjective sense of self-reliance. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Emotional Development, Individual Development
Peer reviewedLamborn, Susie D.; Steinberg, Laurence – Child Development, 1993
Compared adjustment scores among adolescents who differ in both emotional autonomy and perceptions of parental support. Found that, although adolescents who scored high in both emotional autonomy and relationship support reported more internal distress and behavior problems than less autonomous adolescents, they had higher levels of psychological…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Emotional Adjustment
Peer reviewedSteinberg, Laurence; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Before working, adolescents who later worked more than 20 hours per week were less engaged in school and granted more autonomy by their parents than other adolescents. Working more than 20 hours per week further disengaged adolescents from school, increased delinquency and drug use, furthered autonomy, and diminished self-reliance. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Behavior Problems, High School Students
Peer reviewedSteinberg, Laurence; Dornbusch, Sanford M. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Examined the relation between part-time employment and adolescent development. Long work hours were associated with lower performance in school, greater psychological and somatic distress, drug and alcohol use, delinquency, and autonomy from parents. Workers do not have any advantages over nonworkers in self-reliance, work orientation, or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Behavior Problems, Delinquency
Peer reviewedSteinberg, Laurence – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Examines the impact of pubertal status and timing, independent of chronological age, on the family relationships of adolescents in 204 families with a firstborn child between the ages of 10 and 15. Measures included adolescent and parental reports of closeness, confict, and autonomy and assessments of adolesents' pubertal status and pubertal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Check Lists, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship
Download full textSteinberg, Laurence; Dornbusch, Sanford M. – 1990
This study examined the relation between part-time employment and adolescent behavior and development in a multi-ethnic, multi-class sample of approximately 4,000 15- through 18-year-olds. The results indicated that long work hours during the school year were associated with diminished investment in schooling and lowered school performance,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Direct linkSteinberg, Laurence – Educational Leadership, 2011
Understanding the nature of brain development in adolescence helps explain why adolescents can vacillate so often between mature and immature behavior. Early and middle adolescence, in particular, are times of heightened vulnerability to risky and reckless behavior because the brain's reward center is easily aroused, but the systems that control…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Brain, Adolescent Development, Age Differences
