Female Adolescents' Ego Development: Age Comparisons and Childrearing Perceptions

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This study was designed to examine the relationship between perceptions of parental socialization styles and ego development in female high school students. Inasmuch as previous research has provided evidence implying that age is a mediating variable related to ego development, a second goal of this investigation was to replicate these findings. A total of 137, 15 to 18 year old females responded to a child rearing perceptions scale and an ego development instrument. A discriminant analysis revealed that female ego development is facilitated when subjects perceive (1) maternal allowance of freedom and independence, (2) paternal approval and praise, and (3) minimal paternal control and regulation. The analysis which utilized ego development as a dependent measure and age as the independent variable revealed a nonsignificant increase in ego development with corresponding age increments. Collectively, these data suggest that ego development is mediated by age and perceived child rearing experience.

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