Adolescent Ego-Development Trajectories and Young Adult Relationship Outcomes.

The Changing Nature of Adolescent Friendships Longitudinal Links With Early Adolescent Ego Development.

Although success in managing evolving peer relationships is linked to critical adolescent outcomes, little is known about the specific factors that lead to success or failure in peer relationship development across adolescence. This longitudinal study examines the role of adolescents' level of ego development as a predictor of the future course of several facets of friendship development in ear...

Are You Still Bringing Me Down?: Romantic Involvement and Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence to Young Adulthood.

Romantic involvement and mental health are dynamically linked, but this interplay can vary across the life course in ways that speak to the social and psychological underpinnings of healthy development. To explore this variation, this study examined how romantic involvement was associated with trajectories of depressive symptomatology across the transition between adolescence and young adulthoo...

Early adolescent through young adult alcohol and marijuana use trajectories: early predictors, young adult outcomes, and predictive utility.

The present study takes a developmental approach to subgrouping and examines the trajectories of substance use from early adolescence through young adulthood among a community sample of 481 individuals. The patterns of use were examined, subgroups were identified separately for men and women and for alcohol and marijuana, and psychosocial predictors and psychopathology outcomes that differentia...

Early socioeconomic adversity and young adult physical illness: the role of body mass index and depressive symptoms.

PURPOSE The present study investigated the psychophysiological inter- and intra-individual processes that mediate the linkage between childhood and/or adolescent socioeconomic adversities and adult health outcomes. Specifically, the proposed model examined the roles of youth depressive symptoms and body mass index (BMI) trajectories as mediators that explain the link between early adversity and...

Ego Development 1 The Relationship Between Adolescent Ego Development and Patterns of Parental Control