caa a22 4500 475739132 CHVBK 20180406123454.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005173205791 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005173205791 Separation from Parents in Late Adolescence: The Same for Boys and Girls? [Elektronische Daten] [Caroline Geuzaine, Marianne Debry, Vinciane Liesens] This study examined the way late adolescents separate from their parents. Emotional independence and conflictual independence toward mother and father were assessed. Emotional independence was defined as freedom from an excessive need for emotional support from the parents and conflictual independence as absence of guilt, mistrust, and anger toward parents. Students (18-22 years; N = 190) enrolled in higher education completed two scales of Hoffmann's Psychological Separation Inventory. Results indicated that girls more than boys need emotional support from their mothers (z = −3.101, p < .002). They express this need significantly more towards their mothers than towards their fathers (z = −4.194, p < .00003). The pattern of the girls' typical items demonstrated an ambivalence between reported dependence and demand for autonomy. The two types of independence (emotional and conflictual) were moderately correlated (r s = ∼.40). These findings support Gilligan's argument that connectedness plays a central role in the development of female adolescents. They speak for a multidimensional approach of the psychological separation process, which takes the type of independence and the children's and parents' gender into account. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Geuzaine Caroline Service de Psychologie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent, Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Université de Liège, Boulevard du Rectorat B.33, Sart Tilman, 4000, Liège 1, Belgium aut Debry Marianne Liege State University, Belgium aut Liesens Vinciane Belgium aut Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/1(2000-02-01), 79-91 0047-2891 29:1<79 2000 29 10964 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005173205791 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005173205791 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Geuzaine Caroline Service de Psychologie de l'Enfant et de l'Adolescent, Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Université de Liège, Boulevard du Rectorat B.33, Sart Tilman, 4000, Liège 1, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Debry Marianne Liege State University, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Liesens Vinciane Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/1(2000-02-01), 79-91 0047-2891 29:1<79 2000 29 10964 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer