Some factors affecting sixteen-year-olds' success in five developmental tasks.

Chapter IV: The Socially Maladjusted

“…Schoeppe, Haggard, and Havighurst (98) found great differences between boys and girls in crucial factors affecting success in developmental tasks among adolescents. The authors observed that good peer relations had primarily an affect base, and "the importance of proper identification with the same sex-parent highlights the entire analysis."…”

Adolescent familization, socialization, situational structure, and high school age marriage

“…The anxiety thus engendered is said to lead to frequent daydreaming, dependency, manipulation of and an inability to relate emotionally to othees, insecurity, rigid outer control, and a lack of spontaneity. This vignette may be expanded with the finding that sexual, affectional, and aggressive needs are denied with special vigor (Milner, 1949;Rainwater, 1956;Schoeppe, et al, 1953;Whiting and Child, 1953). Parallel evidence shows that family consensus in love and companionship is least among siblings (Dentier and Hutchinson, 1961).…”

“…Shifting from the individual adolescent to the relationship between parent and adolescent, we find that a warm, nurturant mother is important to the normal development of a girl (Heilbrun,. 57 1954a; Liccione, 1955;Musscn and Rutherford, 1953;Rainwater, 1956;Schoeppe, et al, 1953). Such a relationship is important in the development of an acceptance of authority (Bieri and Lobeck, 1959), of role consistency and value-behavior consistency (Heilbrun, 1954a), and of sex appropriate behavior (Mussen and Rutherford, 1963).…”

“…Thus, the concepts of familization and social ization are articulated. There is general agreement that parental over control, notably maternal control, hampers the daughter's emancipation from the family (Cass, 1952;Peck, 1958;Schoeppe, et al-, 1953). Peck (1958) notes that ego strength is the result of a•consistent, warm, trusting, approving family whereas hos tility and guilt grow out of autocratic, untrusting, disapproving family settings.…”

Adolescent familization, socialization, situational structure, and high school age marriage

“…The anxiety thus engendered is said to lead to frequent daydreaming, dependency, manipulation of and an inability to relate emotionally to othees, insecurity, rigid outer control, and a lack of spontaneity. This vignette may be expanded with the finding that sexual, affectional, and aggressive needs are denied with special vigor (Milner, 1949;Rainwater, 1956;Schoeppe, et al, 1953;Whiting and Child, 1953). Parallel evidence shows that family consensus in love and companionship is least among siblings (Dentier and Hutchinson, 1961).…”