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KMID : 0376619960210010030
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Seoul Journal of Psychiatry
1996 Volume.21 No. 1 p.30 ~ p.39
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A Study of Relationship between the Developmental Levels of Superego and the Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescents
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Abstract
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the developmental levels of superego and the psychosocial adjustment in normal adolescents. Also it was investigated whether conduct disordered adolescents are more
immature in
the superego development, and have lower self-reliance and more difficulties in the psychosocial adjustment than normal adolescents.
Normal adolescent group was composed of 1697 middle and high school students, and clinical group consisted of 53 conduct disordered adolescents. All of them responded to the self-report measures of impules control, social functioning, family
functioning, vocational attitude, self-reliance, ethical values(superego), and idealism which were subscales of OSIQ-R. Depression and hostility subscales of SCL-90-R also were administered, and the data were analyzed with ANOVA. Middle school
students
showed significantly higher scores in the scale of impulse control, while high school students showed significantly higher scores in those of social functioning, family functioning, vocational attitude, ethical values. In the scale of ethical
values
adolescents having Protestant religion showed the highest scores, while showing the lowest scores in idealism scale, suggesting the possibility that Protestantism might affect the development of conscience and guilt, but not affect the altruisic
attitude. It was found that adolescents with higher level of superego adjusted better in socio-emotional areas than did adolescents with lower level of superego. Depressed adolescents showed higher scores in the scales of ethical values and
hostility
than did non-depressed adolescents, supporting the psychodynamic postulation for depression. There were no differences in all scales except social functioning scale between normal adolescent group and conduct disordered group. It was thought that
these
results were due to using the self-report measures easily be affected by the faking good defense of social desirability. However, the other possibility is that the moral judgement might not always lead to moral behaviors. Therefore it was
discussed
that
these results need to be reviewed in terms of the relationship between moral judgement and moral behaviors, and the mediating variables of that relationship.
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