Introspectiveness and Adolescent Development.

摘要: This study introduces a measure of introspectiveness for adolescents aged 12–18 and investigates its association with several aspects adolescent development. Introspectiveness—the tendency to deveote diffuse attention thoughts feelings about the self—increased during adolescence, may be stimulated by discontinuities associated development, other kinds discontinuities, parental introspectiveness. Also, was positively depression, anxiety, physical symptoms, help explain increase in symptom reporting this developmental period. Highly introspective participated more artistic activities spent time alone than those low on Finally, highly college students chose self-oriented academic majors, which have implications future occupational Together these results suggest that concept our understanding important