Too Close for Comfort: Inadequate Boundaries With Parents and Individuation in Late Adolescent Girls

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-202

  Mayseless, Ofra ^a   Scharf, Miri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

adolescence; individuation; parent adolescent relationship; psychological control; role reversal

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GUILT; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INDIVIDUALITY; MILITARY SERVICE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SELF CONTROL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66349131428     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015623     Document Type: Article

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