Correlates of Identity Configurations: Three Studies with Adolescent and Emerging Adult Cohorts

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 732-748

  Crocetti, Elisabetta ^a   Scrignaro, Marta ^a   Sica, Luigia Simona ^b   Magrin, Maria Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Basic need; Depression; Identity; Identity functions; Sense of coherence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; ITALY; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860887372     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-011-9702-2     Document Type: Article

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