School Socioeconomic Contexts and Adolescent Self-Descriptions in India
| Autor: | Ranjini Reddy, Judith L. Gibbons |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject Self Self-concept Social environment Erikson's stages of psychosocial development Education Developmental psychology Health psychology Developmental stage theories Developmental and Educational Psychology Personality Psychology Socioeconomic status Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 28:619-631 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6601 0047-2891 |
| DOI: | 10.1023/a:1021662828145 |
| Popis: | Many Western developmental theorists (e.g., Baumeister, 1986; Erikson, 1968) propose an increasingly autonomous self-construal during adolescence (e.g., Erikson, 1968). In this study self-construal among 191 older children and young adolescents (ages 9 through 16) from private and public schools in Madras, India, was assessed by means of the self attitudes instrument (Kuhn and McPartland, 1954) and the scoring system of Trafimow et al. (1991). Individuality in self-construal did not increase with age across all groups but was mediated by socioeconomic strata (SES, as indexed by school) and gender. Boys from high SES schools best conformed to the Western conceptualization of self-concept development. Boys from lower SES schools exhibited opposite patterns with higher group responses in the older age group. The findings highlight the importance of social context in individual development. |
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