Late adolescents' conceptualizations of home-leaving
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Vol. 10 (1) , 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02088418
Abstract
Separation from the family, a key developmental task, has received scant attention from developmentalists. In this study, college students' dissimilarity ratings and ratings on 22 bipolar adjective scales were obtained for a set of 20 definitions of home-leaving. Results of a cluster analysis revealed that conceptualizations of the definitions are organized in terms of eight clusters. Ratings on the 22 adjective scales provided an empirical means for interpreting the typological structure of the home-leaving definitions. Convergence the results of this inductive study of home-leaving and elements of ego development theory was noted.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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