Adolescent psychosocial development in Brno. An ELSPAC Study 2005-2011

• Authors: JEŽEK Stanislav; LACINOVÁ Lenka; MACEK Petr; BERANOVÁ Eva; BOUŠA Ondřej; ČAVNICKÁ Martina; DALAJKA Jiří; KONEČNÝ Štěpán; MARČEK Vladimír; MAREŠ Jan; MASOPUSTOVÁ Zuzana; NEUŽILOVÁ MICHALČÁKOVÁ Radka; NEUSAR Aleš; POLEDŇÁKOVÁ Ivana; SOKOLIOVÁ Michaela; SÝKOROVÁ Zuzana; ŠEVČÍKOVÁ Anna; ŠEREK Jan; ŠIRŮČEK Jan; TYRLÍK Mojmír; VANČURA Jan
• Year of publication: 2017
• Type: Monograph
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Description: The edited monograph presents the basic findings from the psychological part of the Czech branch of the longitudinal ELSPAC study. The study follows a cohort of participants born in 1991 and 1992. The current monograph describes the development of participants across the stage of adolescence, i.e. from age 11 to 19. Individual chapters cover psychosocial development in various areas and employ the longitudinal character of data allowing for individual development descriptions. The areas covered are the development of self and identity, the development of romantic relationships and sexual behaviour, the development of leisure time management, the developmen of worldviews and the belief in a just world, the development of experiencing negative emotions, fear and depressed mood, the development of career planning, and the development of risk behaviour.