Abstract

As a preliminary study to extend the parameters related with adolescence egocentrism, the present study investigated the relationship of self-mornitoring, introspectiveness, and ego-identity with the adolescence egocentrism. A total of 304 Korean boys from the age of 13 to 19 age were asked to answer the adolescence egocentrism scale, the self-monitoring scale, the introspectiveness scale, and the measure of psychological development scale. The results showed that the adolescence egocentrism was the highest for the 16 years old boys, which is not consistent with the results of the previous studies. In self-monitoring, any developmental difference was not found, which does not also agree with the results of Lapsley et al.(1988), and the introspectiveness increased with age, which rejects the hypothesis of Hansell et al.(1986). The multiple regression analysis of the ego-identity and the adolescence egocentrism showed that the adolescence egocentrism decreased and the identity is more achieved and so the role confusion is less and as isolation is less, the intimacy is higher, and the resolution of intimacy vs. isolation is higher. These present results suggest that the parameters of the adolescence egocentrism should be extended to the variables related with the adolescence developmental tasks in the area of ego development and social development as well as those of the cognitive development.