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Combining empirical evidence with indices to measure mattering, Family Matters: The Importance of Mattering to Family in Adolescence explores the inverse relationship between mattering and dysfunctional behavior in adolescence. - Defines mattering and distinguishes among the three ways that people can matter to others: awareness, importance, and reliance
- Utilizes empirical evidence from a quantitative analyses of data from a nationwide survey 2,004 adolescents to support author’s assertions
- Explores the impact of structural and demographic factors such as family structure in developing of a sense of mattering in adolescents.
- Includes helpful indices, including his Mattering Index and Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Index
- Suggests how parents, teachers, and other significant people in the lives of adolescents can work to instill a sense of mattering in those under their care
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Family Matters
Family Matters: The Importance of Mattering to Family in Adolescence © 2009 Gregory C. Elliott. ISBN: 978-1-405-16242-5
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I dedicate this book with great love, admiration, and respect to Morris Rosenberg. Manny, as his friends and colleagues knew him, was the pre-eminent scholar of the self. His works, including Conceiving the self (which earned him the Distinguished Contribution for Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association) and Society and the adolescent self-image, became the foundation for much of the sociological and psychological studies of the self that followed. His methodological expertise, exemplified in The logic of survey analysis and The language of social research (with Paul Lazarsfeld)