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Being Adolescent

Conflict And Growth In The Teenage Years

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By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

By Reed Larson

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On Sale
Oct 9, 1986
Page Count
350 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465006458

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$26.99

Price

$34.99 CAD

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Trade Paperback

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To find out what teenagers’ lives are like, two psychologists gave beepers to seventy-five adolescents, signaled them at random, and asked them to record their thoughts and feelings as they sat in classrooms, socialized with friends, and ate dinner with their families. The result is a unique and detailed portrait of the day-to-day world of the average American teenager that offers valuable new insights for parents, psychologists, and educators.

Genre:

  • “An interesting attempt to make statistical sense out of the turmoil of teenagers’ lives. This is a hopeful book…It has moments of wit and, often, great descriptive power.”
    Elizabeth Crow, Washington Post Book World
  • “A fascinating account of what it is to be a teenager in our modern world…Everyone interested in adolescents will find the results of this book enlightening.”
    Daniel Offer, M.D., Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center
  • “A major achievement…It vivifies for the reader the ways in which adolescents spend their time and how they feel about their various activities.”
    Judith G. Smetana, American Journal of Education
  • “This book must be recognized as a classic…and should be put on one’s ‘must read list.’”
    Gerald Adams, Journal of Adolescence

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

About the Author

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University and the founder and co-director of the Quality of Life Research Center. He is the author of a number of books, including the bestselling Flow, The Evolving Self, Creativity, and Being Adolescent. He lives in Claremont, California.

Barbara Schneider is co-director of the Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work, and is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. She has co-authored a number of books including The Ambitious Generation and Transforming Schools.

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Reed Larson

About the Author

Reed Larson is assistant professor of human development and family ecology at the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign and director of the Laboratory for the Study of Adolescence at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.

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