Value differentiation in adolescence: The role of age and cultural complexity

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 322-336

  Daniel, Ella ^a   Schiefer, David ^a   Möllering, Anna ^b   Benish Weisman, Maya ^a   Boehnke, Klaus ^b   Knafo, Ariel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MIGRATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; USSR;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; ISRAEL; MALE; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL VALUES; USSR;

EID: 84856264431     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01694.x     Document Type: Article

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