Transitions through adolescence : interpersonal domains and context

Graber, Julia A. (Added Author). Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne. (Added Author). Petersen, Anne C. (Added Author).

Summary: Research on development during adolescence has flourished in the past decade, as scholars from many disciplines focused their attention on phenomena of maturation within different social contexts. This volume includes approaches from a variety of social science disciplines investigating adolescent transitions in three domains: the peer system, the family system, and school and work contexts. Different modes of investigation (e.g., survey research and ethnographic studies) and varieties of transitions that different adolescents experience add to the richness of the research tapestry presented. In addition to their focus on research, the chapters reflect recent advances in how adolescent transitions are conceptualized, strategies for interventions, and policy implications.

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ISBN: 0805815945 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xi, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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1. Continuity and Discontinuity Across the Transition of Early Adolescence: A Developmental Contextual Perspective / Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Alexander von Eye, Charles W. Ostrum, Katherine Nitz, Rachna Talwar-Soni and Jonathan G. Tubman -- 2. Pubertal Processes: Methods, Measures, and Models / Julia A. Graber, Anne C. Petersen and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn -- 3. Transitions in Friendship and Friends' Influence / Thomas J. Berndt -- 4. Sexual Transitions in Adolescence / Joseph Lee Rodgers -- 5. Transitions in Drug Use During Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood / Jerald G. Bachman, Lloyd D. Johnston, Patrick M. O'Malley and John Schulenberg -- 6. Developmental Transitions in Poor Youth: Delinquency and Crime / Mercer L. Sullivan -- 7. A Model of Family Relational Transformations During the Transition to Adolescence: Parent-Adolescent Conflict and Adaptation / Grayson N. Holmbeck -- 8. Adolescent Parenthood and the Transition to Adulthood / Bertram J. Cohler and Judith S. Musick -- 9. Early Parenting and Intergenerational Family Relationships Within African American Families / Cynthia Merriwether-de Vries, Linda M. Burton and LaShawnda Eggeletion -- 10. School Transitions in Early Adolescence: What Are We Doing to Our Young People? / Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Sarah Lord and Christy Miller Buchanan -- 11. Dropping Out / Francis A. J. Ianni and Margaret Terry Orr -- 12. Working Poor: Low-Wage Employment in the Lives of Harlem Youth / Katherine S. Newman -- 13. Family Factors and Young Adult Transitions: Educational Attainment and Occupational Prestige / Kathy L. Bell, Joseph P. Allen, Stuart T. Hauser and Thomas G. O'Connor -- 14. Adolescent Transitions in Context / Julia A. Graber, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Anne C. Petersen -- Author Index -- Subject Index.