Social Psychology of Adolescence

PATRICK HEAVEN is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of Personality and Social Behaviour with Adrian Furnham, and editor of books on adolescence and lifespan development. His current research interests include personality and environmental influences on the psychological health of young people.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionIdentity and the SelfFamily InfluencesFriendships and Peer GroupsSchool LifeMental HealthSexualityAdolescents as ParentsOrientation to Authority and DelinquencyThe Working AdolescentConcluding CommentsBibliographyIndex.

'...an accessible and lucid compendium of current research on the social development of young people in their second decade of life...the text is well written in a style that helps to break down the jargon-oriented theoretical terms used in many social psychological approaches...it does this without becoming excessively lightweight.' - Martin Hagger, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry