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The Many Faces of Adolescent Egocentrism

Two European Replications

Luc Goossens

University of Louvain (K U. Leuven), Belgium

Inge Seiffge-Krenke

University of Bonn, Germany

Alfons Marcoen

University of Louvain (K U. Leuven), Belgium

Measures of adolescent egocentrism were administered to 228 Belgian and 241 German adolescents in order to explore (a) the intercorrelations between different aspects of the construct and (b) their developmental functions. Correlational results argue in favor of the multidimensional nature of the construct. The Imaginary Audience Scale (IAS) exhibited low to moderate associations with the Adolescent Egocentrism Scale (AES) and the Low Probability Events (LPE) questionnaire, so that these measures may not be used interchangeably. However, both the imaginary audience (LAS) and the personal fable (PF) measures evidenced construct validity in that they were significantly related to self-image in the German sample. Some egocentric phenomena decreased from early or middle adolescence onwards, but other manifestations were still on the increase by the end of adolescence in both samples. The need for further cross-cultural research in the domain of adolescent egocentrism is stressed.

Journal of Adolescent Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, 43-58 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/074355489271004
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