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Construct validation of individuating and relating autonomy orientations in culturally Chinese adolescents
Author(s) -
Yeh KuangHui,
Yang YungJui
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-839x.2006.00192.x
Subject(s) - psychology , conformity , autonomy , social psychology , interpersonal communication , happiness , construct (python library) , aggression , anxiety , interpersonal relationship , developmental psychology , psychiatry , political science , computer science , law , programming language
Adolescent individuating and relating autonomies were compared to the concepts of detachment and public conformity. Participants included 573 junior high and 673 senior high school students. Each type of autonomy had a distinctive function in intrapsychic or interpersonal domains and clearly differed from detachment and public conformity. In the competing model analysis, individuating autonomy was more associated than relating autonomy with adjustment variables in the personal domain, such as the global and personal aspects of self‐esteem, the personal aspect of happiness, and internalizing problems (mainly anxiety and depression). Relating autonomy was more associated than individuating autonomy with adjustment variables in the interpersonal domain such as social skills and externalizing problems (mainly aggression and delinquent behaviour).