Coping and Self-Concept in Adolescence

✍ Scribed by Sandy Jackson, Harke Bosma (auth.), Dr. Harke A. Bosma, Dr. A. E. Sandy Jackson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Self-concept and coping behaviour are important aspects of development in adolescence. Despite their developmental significance, however, the two areas have rarely been considered in relation to each other. This book is the first in which the two areas are brought together; it suggests that this interaction can open the way to new possibilities for further research and to new implications for applied work with adolescents. Two separate chapters review research carried out in each of the areas. These are followed by a series of more empirically focussed chapters in which issues such as changes in relationship patterns, difficult school situations, leaving school, use of leisure, anxiety and suicidal behaviour are examined in the context of self-concept and coping. The final chapter seeks to identify some of the central themes emerging from this work and discusses possible research and applied implications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Coping and Self in Adolescence....Pages 1-11
The Problem of Self-Conceiving....Pages 13-33
Coping and Development....Pages 35-47
Developmental Processes in Self-Concept and Coping Behaviour....Pages 49-68
Selves-in-Relation: School Leavers’ Accommodation to Different Interpersonal and Situational Demands....Pages 69-86
Ego-Strength Development and Pattern of Social Relationships....Pages 87-109
Adolescents’ Orientations for Development....Pages 111-127
Self Through Relationship Development....Pages 129-148
Continuity and Commitment: A Developmental Analysis of the Identity Formation Process in Suicidal and Non-suicidal Youth....Pages 149-166
Anxiety in Adolescence: Sources and Reactions....Pages 167-186
Coping with Difficult School Situations and Stress Resistance....Pages 187-201
Coping and Self-Concept: Retrospect and Prospect....Pages 203-221
Back Matter....Pages 223-270

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general