Family Factors in the Ego Development of Adolescent Girls

Lippe, Anna Louise von der

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“…Blaya et al, 2007) parental acceptance/rejection (Dubois-Comtois & Moss, 2008) and forms of children’s interaction with their parents (von der Lippe, 2000). Greater maturity of defense styles was associated with lower scores in bullying behaviours and with higher scores of psychological well-being and parental acceptance.…”

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Can the factor structure of Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) contribute to our understanding of parental acceptance/rejection, bullying, victimization and perceived well-being in Greek early adolescents?

Giovazolias

Mitsopoulou

2017

Eur. J. Psychol.

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Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ) is a self-report instrument designed to measure defense mechanisms. Although commonly used, the DSQ-40 has not been validated in early adolescent populations. The present study sought to determine the factor validity of the DSQ-40 in a sample of Greek primary school students (N = 265). Further, it aimed to investigate the relationship between defense mechanisms and perceived parental acceptance/rejection, the participation in bullying (either as bully or victim) as well as self-reported well being. Participants completed the Greek version of DSQ-40, adapted for use by this particular age group as well as measures in order to examine its convergent and discriminant validity. The findings support a four-factor solution as the most adequate for our data. Further, it was found that defense mechanisms are related to perceived parental acceptance and rejection. Finally, the results showed that the DSQ-40 can effectively discriminate participants with high/low bullying/victimization and perceived well-being. Our results indicate that the DSQ-40 is appropriate for use in late childhood. Implications for clinical practice and future studies that would confirm the appropriateness of the scale’s use in younger populations are also discussed.

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Can the factor structure of Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) contribute to our understanding of parental acceptance/rejection, bullying, victimization and perceived well-being in Greek early adolescents?

Giovazolias

Mitsopoulou

2017

Eur. J. Psychol.

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“…Accommodation has been viewed as the mechanism underlying changes in ego development over time. Research has shown that ego development is related to experiencing a variety of life events (e.g., Helson, 1992; Helson & Roberts, 1994; von der Lippe, 1998). In narratives of life transition, accommodation is evidenced in the admission that one has been truly challenged by life experiences, that one has been forced by circumstance to actively shift one's sources of meaning (King, Scollon, Ramsey, & Williams, 2000).…”

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Whatever happened to "What might have been"? Regrets, happiness, and maturity.

King

Hicks

2007

American Psychologist

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Although lost opportunities and mistaken expectations are unpleasant to think and talk about, these experiences may have a role to play in personality development. Drawing on research using narratives of lost possible selves, the authors review the relations of regrettable experiences to 2 important and independent aspects of maturity, happiness and complexity. Thinking about a lost possible self is related to concurrent regrets, distress, and lowered well-being; however, elaborating on a lost possible self is related, concurrently, to complexity and predicts complexity, prospectively, over time. In this article, the authors describe the role that regrettable experiences have in promoting both happiness and complexity. Finally, expanding on previous work, the authors examine potential affordances of happy maturity and suggest psychological capacities that may promote happy maturity.

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“…Contradictory to our expectations, we found no significant contribution of mother-adolescent interaction to adolescent ego development. Previous studies of family and adolescent ego development by Hauser et al (1984, 1991) and von der Lippe (2000) have primarily used observational designs. In an observational study, the ways in which parents and children react to each other during disagreements can be observed in their entirety, and affectively enabling behaviors and cognitively constraining behaviors can be observed simultaneously in context.…”

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“…A mature individual with advanced ego development is more able to be sensitive, to decenter, and to take the perspective of others accurately. Mothers with high ego levels display more supportive and empathic behaviors toward their children (von der Lippe, 2000). We therefore hypothesize that the mother’s ego level is positively related to supportive mother-adolescent interactions (H3), but negatively related to constraining mother-adolescent interactions (H4).…”

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The Mediating Effect of Mother-Adolescent Interactions on the Relationship Between Maternal Ego Development and Adolescent Individuation in Taiwan

Liu¹,

Yeh

2011

Swiss Journal of Psychology

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A mediation model using a sample of 158 adolescents (51% girls; Mage = 12.4, SD = 0.52) tested the relationships between maternal ego development, mother-adolescent interaction, and adolescent autonomy and ego development. Maternal ego development was positively related to supportive interaction, but negatively related to coercive interaction. Supportive interaction was positively related to adolescent autonomy, but was not related to ego development. There was a mediating effect of supportive interaction on the relationship between maternal ego development and adolescent autonomy.

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Family Factors in the Ego Development of Adolescent Girls

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Can the factor structure of Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) contribute to our understanding of parental acceptance/rejection, bullying, victimization and perceived well-being in Greek early adolescents?

Can the factor structure of Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) contribute to our understanding of parental acceptance/rejection, bullying, victimization and perceived well-being in Greek early adolescents?

Whatever happened to "What might have been"? Regrets, happiness, and maturity.

The Mediating Effect of Mother-Adolescent Interactions on the Relationship Between Maternal Ego Development and Adolescent Individuation in Taiwan

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