Social Cognition in Adolescence: Its developmental significance

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
INTRODUCTION......Page 5
Social cognitive development in adolescence: Recent theoretical approaches......Page 6
Social cognitive development in adolescence: Does intervention change anything?......Page 7
REFERENCES......Page 8
A COACTIVE SYSTEMS CONCEPTION OF SOCIAL ACTION......Page 9
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL MEANING-MAKING IN ADOLESCENCE......Page 10
The dynamics of developing social skills......Page 11
Alternative trajectories in the development of social interaction skills......Page 12
The dynamics of social meaning-making in joint action......Page 14
SOCIAL COGNITION AS EMBEDDED AND EMBODIED MEANING MAKING......Page 15
REFERENCES......Page 16
Identity processing style, self-construction, and personal epistemic assumptions: A social-cognitive perspective......Page 17
Identity processing orientations......Page 18
Coping and decisional strategies......Page 19
Do preschool children hold a constructive theory of mind?......Page 20
CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 21
REFERENCES......Page 22
Adolescents’ conceptions of family democracy: Does their own behaviour play a role?......Page 24
Measures......Page 25
Adolescents’ characteristics that could strengthen or undermine democracy......Page 26
Can youths’ behaviours predict a democratic family climate?......Page 27
Are youths’ behaviours important, independent of parents’ behaviours?......Page 28
DISCUSSION......Page 29
REFERENCES......Page 30
Personality type, social relationships, and problem behaviour in adolescence......Page 32
Measures......Page 34
Concurrent differences between the types......Page 35
The role of relationships in moderating the effects of personality type on problem behaviours......Page 36
Antecedents and consequences of the longitudinal personality types......Page 38
DISCUSSION......Page 39
REFERENCES......Page 40
Family judgements about adolescent problems: Where respondents overlap and why they may disagree......Page 42
METHOD......Page 43
RESULTS......Page 44
Concerns articulated by different family members......Page 45
Interrater analysis of the adolescent’s current adjustment problems......Page 46
Adjustment ratings and their relation to the different concerns about the coming year expressed by each respondent......Page 47
DISCUSSION......Page 50
REFERENCES......Page 51
COPING AND SOCIAL COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT......Page 53
The role of cognition in adaptive coping styles......Page 54
Are avoidant coping and withdrawal always maladaptive?......Page 55
The impact of working models of attachment......Page 56
DOES INTERVENTION CHANGE ANYTHING?......Page 58
Is peer group counselling a promising alternative?......Page 59
REFERENCES......Page 60
NEW PROBLEMS AND NEW POPULATIONS: PROMOTING POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT......Page 62
Theoretical challenges......Page 63
Relational data analysis: Life Course Interview......Page 64
PSQ-QE positive intervention gains: Pre–post change (intervention versus control)......Page 66
DISCUSSION......Page 67
REFERENCES......Page 70
Edelweiss, edelweiss…......Page 71
Attractor states......Page 72
Causal structure: Proximal causes, context and distributed nature of causes......Page 73
A DYNAMIC SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE ON INTERVENTION: PRINCIPLES AND EVALUATION......Page 74
Intervention......Page 75
REFERENCES......Page 76
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 79