Challenge and conflict are an integral part of adolescent life in the West. This book looks at adolescence from a cross-cultural perspective, including research from Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, China and Japan. The roles of morality, family contexts, social change, and gender are considered in adolescent personality development by contributors well known in their respective fields. The book looks at related studies of adolescent development of individuation, ego, identity and moral orientation related to family context in several countries, with a focus on family...