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The Relationships among the Adolescent-Mother Conflict, Problem Behavior and the Level of Ego-Identity Development

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2005, 18(3), pp.125~141
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Hwee-Sook Jang 1

1충남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study examined the relationships among the adolescent-mother conflict, problem behavior, and the level of ego-identity development with middle and high school students. For this purpose three scales-adolescent-mother conflict scale, ego-identity scale and problem behavior scale-were used. Three way ANOVA revealed that the adolescents having much conflicts with mother had more problem behaviors and lower level of ego-identity development than their peers. Also the adolescents with the low level of ego-identity development had more problem behaviors than their counterparts. In addition, path analysis revealed that the adolescent-mother conflicts affected on the levels of ego-identity and in turn the ego-identity levels affected on the problems behavior as the postulated causal relation except high school male students. Interestingly the high school male students had the low level of ego-identity and engaged in the many problem behaviors.

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