TY - JOUR PY - 2008// TI - Continuity and change from adolescence to emerging adulthood: adolescence-limited vs. Life-course-persistent profound ego development arrests JO - Journal of youth and adolescence A1 - Billings, Rebecca L. A1 - Hauser, Stuart T. A1 - Allen, Joseph P. SP - 1178 EP - 1192 VL - 37 IS - 10 N2 - 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.
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LA - en SN - 0047-2891 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-008-9317-4 ID - ref1 ER -