Agency, communion, and pubertal status: Separating between- and within-person associations to examine social goals development.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Agentic (status/independence) and communal (acceptance/connectedness) social goals are thought to shape how adolescents transact with their social environments. Despite their theoretical importance, little work has focused on the development of these higher order personality dimensions. Informed by developmental neuroscience and evolutionary psychology theoretical frameworks, the current study examined associations between pubertal status, a person's level of pubertal development at a single point in time, and agentic and communal social goals across early to middle adolescence.

Methods

This longitudinal study consisted of 387 (55% female) adolescents (Wave 1 M age = 12.1) who were assessed annually across three waves. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to exam

SUBMITTER: Meisel SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8487913 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature