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The article presents information about the research conducted in psychology of youth in twelve countries and methodology being used for the research. Young people are an important commodity. Whatever roles they play as adults, from leaders of countries to individuals who require help simply to stay alive, this population will one day determine national, political, economic and educational policies throughout the world. Today, youth everywhere are beset by increasingly complex and intense problems that threaten their futures. In order to help young people who have difficulty coping with what they now face in their lives, sociologists need to know first what their problems and coping strategies are. Sociologists also need to explore the underlying causes of their problems, whether these be cultural, social, environmental, developmental or all of these and, finally, there is need to find the differences between youth who cope successfully in their environments and those who do not. The research team developed three instruments for the study: a questionnaire, a case study format designed for data gathering and a coding scale designed to convert data from each national study so that it could be compared with data collected in other countries. |
