Identity and the choice of social roles
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
- Vol. 1985 (30) , 79-99
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cd.23219853007
Abstract
Choosing personally expressive social roles such as one's sex role and family orientation may be difficult for adolescents especially if their preferred self-definitions conflict with societal expectations.Keywords
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