Religious Involvement and the Social Competence and Adjustment of Indonesian Muslim Adolescents

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 597-611

  French, Doran C ^a   Eisenberg, Nancy ^b   Vaughan, Julie ^b   Purwono, Urip ^c   Suryanti, Telie A ^c  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PADJADJARAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

cultural psychology; religion; social competence

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERAMENT;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; ISLAM; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES; SPIRITUALITY; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 42049095467     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.2.597     Document Type: Article

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