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Traditional views regard secrecy as problematic and associated research among adults almost exclusively focuses on its physical and psychological costs for the secret-keeper. Contrary to this negative view on secrecy, the present paper proposes that secrecy may have developmental functions that bear
This study investigates connectedness with parents and behavioural autonomy in a sample of 51 Dutch and 51 Moroccan adolescents living in a multi-ethnic context in the Netherlands. None of the three hypotheses on ethnic differences in the quality of the relationship with parents was completely confi
We report a two-wave longitudinal study of 1,571 Dutch adolescents concerning the role of commitment and exploration in identity development. We used the Utrecht-Groningen Identity Development Scale to measure commitment and exploration in the domains of relational and societal identity. Our results
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