Jekyll and Hyde and Me: Age-Graded Differences in Conceptions of Self-Unity

Autor/inn/en	Proulx, Travis; Chandler, Michael J.
Titel	Jekyll and Hyde and Me: Age-Graded Differences in Conceptions of Self-Unity
Quelle	In: Human Development, 52 (2009) 5, S.261-286 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-716X
DOI	10.1159/000233259
Schlagwörter	Young Adults; Adolescents; Age Differences; Behavior; Self Concept; Personality Traits; Personality Development; Foreign Countries; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Selbstkonzept; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Personalilty development; Persönlichkeitsbildung; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	This research details the changing ways in which young people of different ages differently warrant the conviction that, notwithstanding evidence of good and bad behaviours, selves can be understood as unified across the various roles and contexts that they occupy. Canadian adolescents and young adults were asked to explain the apparent disunity of self implied by good and bad behaviours manifested by the fictional character Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, themselves and familiar others. Age-graded differences were observed, where young people described themselves as increasingly multiplicitous and context dependent as they grew older. This developmental trajectory is understood to represent an emerging desire to imagine one's good behaviours as internally motivated, and one's bad behaviours as externally provoked. (Contains 1 figure and 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10