Citation

Billings RL, Hauser ST, Allen JP. J. Youth Adolesc. 2008; 37(10): 1178-1192.

Affiliation

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10964-008-9317-4

PMID

28154436

Abstract

Participants (n = 36) with consistent Pre-conformist ego development levels during multiple adolescent assessments were studied to determine whether and how their ego levels had changed at age 25. Those (n = 12) whose ego levels remained at the Pre-conformist level were assigned to a life-course-persistent profound ego development arrest trajectory group; those (n = 24) whose ego levels reached the Conformist or Post-conformist level at age 25 were assigned to an adolescence-limited profound ego development arrest trajectory group. Analysis of predictors and age 25 correlates of group membership revealed that selected age 14 family interaction behaviors differentiated the two groups. At age 25, members of the adolescence-limited group showed superior performance on several measures of interpersonal and intrapersonal functioning.

Language: en

Keywords

Adolescence; Attachment; Close family and relationships; Ego development; Emerging adulthood; Family contexts; Hostility; Identity; Trajectories