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IN a short article one can of course attempt no comprehensive survey of the psychology of adolescence. I propose merely (i) to supply further evidence on some points in view of the revived interest in the training and guidance of youth, (ii) to question one or two assumptions usually made, and (iii) to indicate certain basic problems.
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See Prof. Wheeler's book "Youth" and her article in the British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1 (1931).
A detailed account of the results and fuller quotations from the confidential essays are given in my article in the British Journal of Educational Psychology, 13 (June, 1943).
Hollingworth, Leta S., "The Psychology of the Adolescent", p. 20.
See figures quoted in "Young Offenders", p. 164 and also pp. 120–21.
Brit. J. Educ. Psych., 8 (1938).
Brit. J. Educ. Psych., 8, 88–89 (1938).
See "The Young Delinquent".
"The Difficult Child and the Problem of Discipline", p. 24 (Methuen).
Fuller details of these reports and further discussion of results are included in my article in the British Journal of Educational Psychology, 13 (June, 1943).
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VALENTINE, C. Adolescence and Some Problems of Youth Training*. Nature 152, 122–124 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152122a0
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