Teenagers Define Themselves Mostly In Terms Of Their Positive Traits; Adults More In Terms Of Their Social Roles

This is the Twenty Statements Test and it’s designed to assess how we see ourselves – our “self-concept”. For their new paper in the journal Memory, a team at the University of Reading, led by Emily Hards, gave this test to 822 teenagers (aged 13-18) from three schools in England, with the additional instruction “not to think too much about the responses and not to worry about the order/importance of the statements”.
Read more: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/05/28/teenagers-define-themselves-mostly-in-terms-of-their-traits-adults-more-in-terms-of-their-social-roles/?source=Snapzu