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Family Matters: The Importance of Mattering to Family in Adolescence [Kindle Edition]

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Combining empirical evidence with indices to measure mattering, FamilyMatters: The Importance of Mattering to Family in Adolescence explores the inverse relationship between mattering and dysfunctional behavior in adolescence.
  • Defines mattering and distinguishes among the three ways that people can matter to others: awareness, importance, and reliance
  • Utilizes empirical evidence from a quantitative analyses of data from a nationwide survey 2,004 adolescents to support author’s assertions
  • Explores the impact of structural and demographic factors such as family structure in developing of a sense of mattering in adolescents.
  • Includes helpful indices, including his Mattering Index and Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Index
  • Suggests how parents, teachers, and other significant people in the lives of adolescents can work to instill a sense of mattering in those under their care
  • File Size: 2701 KB
  • Print Length: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (February 9, 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004AM5KHC
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #339,470 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Family Matters: The Importance of Mattering to Family in Adolescence

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