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Addresses adolescent identity issues and suggests practical approaches to facilitate development and adjustment.
What are the major self and identity concerns for early adolescents? What are the applications and interventions that can address those concerns, helping to ease the transition into later adolescence and adulthood? Providing a broad and interdisciplinary approach to studying the self, the contributors emphasize the practical implications of their work for understanding early adolescent self and identity and for designing interventions that facilitate development and adjustment. The book consists of four major sections, in which contributors address conceptual issues, school transitions, peer and behavioral problems, and intervention programs.
Contributors
1. Understanding Early Adolescent Self and Identity: An Introduction
Thomas M. Brinthaupt & Richard P. Lipka
Part I. Conceptual Issues
2. Self and Identity in Early Adolescence: The Pains and Gains of Knowing Who and What You Are
Catrin Finkenauer, Rutger C. M. E. Engels, Wim Meeus, & Annerieke Oosterwegel
3. Self-Esteem as a Multifaceted Construct
Michael H. Kernis
Part II. School and the Sense of Self
4. On Academic Identity Formation in Middle School Settings During Early Adolescence: A Motivational-Contextual Perspective
Robert W. Roeser & Shun Lau
5. The Ecology of Middle Grades School and Possible Selves: Theory, Research, and Action
Peggy Clements & Edward Seidman
Part III. Peer Relationships and Behavioral Problems
6. Self, Self-Esteem, Conflicts, and Best Friendships in Early Adolscence
Margarita Azmitia
7. Stability and Change in Global Self-Esteem and Self-Related Affect
Françoise Alsaker & Dan Olweus
8. Influence of Competence and Alcohol Use on Self-Esteem: Latent Growth Curve Models Using Longitudinal Date
Lawrence M. Scheier & Gilbert J. Botvin
Part IV. Early Adolescent Interventions
9. Identity in Early Adolescence via Social Change Activities: Experience of the Adolescent Social Action Program
Lily Dow Velarde, Randall G. Starling, & Nina B. Wallerstein
10. A Place to Call Home: Youth Organizations in the Lives of Inner City Adolescents
Nancy L. Deutsch & Barton J. Hirsch
11. Esteem-Enhancement Interventions During Early Adolescence
David L. DuBois, Carol Burk-Braxton, & Heather D. Tevendale
Index