Personality Development of Adolescents



Personality Development of Adolescents

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The aim was firstly to determine if peers and parents had a different impact on the personality development of the adolescent. A second aim was to determine if gender played a role in this regard. An empirical investigation was carried out involving 98 learners from Grades 8 to 11 (53 boys and 55 girls). The respondents complete d instrume nts measuring parent-c hild relationship, rel ationship with peers, se lf-concept, and personality characteristics. The results indicated that the peer group, when compared with parents, had a stronger rel ationship with the personality development of the adolescent. T his stronger rel ationship was more prominent in boys than in girls. Gender did, therefore, play a role.

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Garfield Bester (2007) Personality development of the adolescent: peer group versus parents. South African Journal of Education. Vol 27(2)177-190

State the main aim of the author/s(two or three sentences):

The aim was firstly to determine if peers and parents had a different impact on the personality development of the adolescent.

A second aim was to determine if gender played a role in this regard. An empirical investigation was carried out involving 98 learners from Grades 8 to 11 (53 boys and 55 girls).

Summarise the research methods/approach and any ethical considerations:

The research is based on quantitiative research methods. Education research has moved away largely from the numbers approach in recent years, and the emphasis has been on qualitative methods. However, the use of numbers can be a very useful tool, either as part of a larger project that employs many different methods or as a basis for a complete piece of work. As part of your research you will be looking at certain characteristics (variables) and endeavouring to show something interesting about how they are distributed within a certain population. The nature of your research will determine the variables in which you are interested. A variable needs to be measured for the purpose of quantitative analysis. We may collect data concerning many variables, perhaps through a questionnaire, or choose to measure just two or several variables by observation or testing. The variables we are interested in may be dependent or independent. There will be other features present in the problem that may be constant or confounding.

The study does not contain any ethical issue. The research basically was designed on primary methodological trends collecting the required data via unstructured interview, in this relation, the researcher first inform the respondents that their interviews would be recorded and the notes would also be taken then interviews were conducted. Moreover, the respondents were also assured that their personal information would be kept confidential and only collected responses from their side would be made the part of research study which would be assumed as the findings of r

esearch that would be analysed subsequently into another chapter under the separate heading of discussion.

Summarise the main findings of the research:

The results indicated that the ...