1st Edition

Cognitive and Moral Development, Academic Achievement in Adolescence

By Richard M. Lerner, Jasna Jovanovic Copyright 1999

    This volume focuses on concepts central to the understanding of the key features of individuality which undergo significant transformations throughout the adolescent period: Personality, self, and ego. While rooted in distinct theoretical traditions, these three concepts, in combination, capture the core aspects of the formation of the individual's unique sense of self or identity, a psychosocial development fundamentally associated with adolescence. Consistent with the developmental-systems models of person-context relations at the forefront of current human development theory and research, the articles within this volume focus on the dynamic, reciprocal relations between youth and key socializing agents within their ecologies. Nevertheless, the articles represented in this volume illustrate that when attempting to understand the development of personality- and self-systems, scholars differ in the extent to which they place primary emphasis on the individual, on the context, or on the relationship between the two.

    Chapter 1 1A French version of the article was presented at FONEME, 3rd International Convention, Milan 1970, and published in the proceedings (FONEME, Institution for Studies and Research in Human Formation, 20135, Via Bergamo 21, Milan, Italy). The English translation was prepared by Joan Bliss and Hans Furth, to whom special thanks are due. The editors of Human Development gratefully acknowledge permission by the author and FONEME to publish the English version., J. Piaget; Chapter 2 Egocentrism in Adolescence, David Elkind; Chapter 3 Formal Reasoning among Pre-and Late Adolescents, Deanna Kuhn, Victoria Ho, Catherine Adams; Chapter 4 Formal Operations as Regulatory Context in Adolescence, Willis F. Overton, John H. Steidl, Diana Rosenstein, Harvey A. Horowitz; Chapter 5 Development of Physical and Social Reasoning in Adolescence, Daniel P. Keating, Lawrence V. Clark; Chapter 6 Revisions in the theory and practice of moral development, Lawrence Kohlberg; Chapter 7 Children’s Reasoning about Interpersonal and Moral Conflicts, Judith G. Smetana, Melanie Killen, Elliot Turiel; Chapter 8 Prosocial Development in Late Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study, Nancy Eisenberg, Gustavo Carlo, Bridget Murphy, Patricia Van Court; Chapter 9 Socialization and Mothers’ and Adolescents’ Empathy-Related Characteristics, Nancy Eisenberg, Sandra McNally; Chapter 10 The Youth Charter: towards the formation of adolescent moral identity, William Damon, Anne Gregory; Chapter 11 In the Mind of the Actor: The Structure of Adolescents’ Achievement Task Values and Expectancy-Related Beliefs, Jacquelynne.S. Eccles, Allan Wigfield; Chapter 12 Individual-Contextual Relationships and Mathematics Performance: Comparing American and Serbian Young Adolescents, Jasna Jovanovic, Richard M. Lerner; Chapter 13 Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Achievement, Laurence Steinberg, Sanford M. Dornbusch, B. Bradford Brown; Chapter 14 Explaining the School Performanceof African-American Adolescents, Ronald D. Taylor, Robin Casten, B. Bradford Brown, Susanne M. Flickinger, Debra Roberts, Cecil D. Fulmore; Chapter 15 The Influence of Perceived Family and Personal Factors on Self-Reported: School Performance of Chinese and Western High School Students, Doreen A. Rosenthal, S. Shirley Feldman; Chapter 16 Stability of Intelligence from Preschool to Adolescence: The Influence of Social and Family Risk Factors, Arnold J. Sameroff, Ronald Seifer, Alfred Baldwin, Clara Baldwin; Chapter 17 School Outcomes for Minority-Group Adolescent Mothersat 28 to 36 Months Postpartum A Longitudinal Follow-Up: An Ecological Perspective, Bonnie J. Leadbeater; Chapter 18 Parental Child Rearing and Academic Achievement in Boys:, Kathryn R. Wentzel, S. Shirley Feldman, Daniel A. Weinberger; Chapter 19 The Relation of Parenting Style to Adolescent School Performance, Sanford M. Dornbusch, Philip L. Ritter, P. Herbert Leiderman, Donald F. Roberts, Michael J. Fraleigh; Chapter 20 Full Service Schools: Revolution or Fad?, Joy G. Dryfoos; Chapter 21 Effects on Students of an Interdisciplinary Program Linking Social Studies, Art, and Family Volunteers in the Middle Grades, Joyce L. Epstein, Susan L. Dauber; Chapter 22 Out-of-School Care of Young Adolescents and Self-Reported Behaviour, Nancy L. Galambos, Jennifer L. Maggs;

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    Richard M. Lerner, Jasna Jovanovic