How Young People in Indonesia see themselves as Environmentalists

How people see others is different from how people see themselves: a replicable pattern across cultures.

Consensus studies from 4 cultures--in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, and Germany--as well as secondary analyses of self- and observer-reported Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) data from 29 cultures suggest that there is a cross-culturally replicable pattern of difference between internal and external perspectives for the Big Five personality traits. People see themselves as m...

How I See the Yoruba See Themselves

How adolescents come to see themselves as more responsible through participation in youth programs.

This qualitative study was aimed at developing theory about the process underlying the development of responsibility grounded in accounts of youth who reported experiencing this change. A total of 108 high-school-aged (M = 16.5) youth from 11 programs were interviewed about their experiences within the program, and 24 reported becoming more responsible through their participation. The youth's a...

Do people who "mature out" of drinking see themselves as more mature?

BACKGROUND Self-perceptions of adulthood during the 20s and 30s are influenced by role transitions, age-related norms, and character traits. These factors are also associated with alcohol use disorders (AUDs), which peak and subsequently decrease during this time of life. Previous developmental research has found that alcohol misuse in adolescence predicts lower reported maturity, whereas alcoh...

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