Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

A survey of adolescent military family members' self-image

  • Published:
Journal of Youth and Adolescence Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The Offer Self-Image Questionnaire was administered to 135 adolescent military family members, ages 13 through 18. The data suggest that the usual demands placed on the military family do not deter the adolescent from developing a healthy self-image.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Blos, P. (1962).On Adolescence Free Press, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Darnauer, P. F. (1976). The adolescent experience in career army families. In McCubbin, H., Dahl, B., and Hunter, E. (eds.),Families in the Military Systems Sage, Beverly Hills, Calif., pp. 42–66.

    Google Scholar 

  • Freud, A. (1958). Adolescence.Psychoanal. Stud. Child 16: 255–278.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gabower, G. (1960). Behavior problems of children in Navy officer families.Soc. Casework 41: 177–184.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kenny, J. A. (1967). The child in the military community.J. Am. Acad. Child Psychiat. 6: 51–63.

    Google Scholar 

  • Offer, D. (1969).The Psychological World of the Teenager Basic Books, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Offer, D., Ostrov, E., and Howard, K. (1981a).The Offer Self-Image Questionnaire for Adolescents: A Manual Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago.

    Google Scholar 

  • Offer, D., Ostrov, E., and Howard, K. (1981b).The Adolescent: A Psychological Self-Portrait Basic Books, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pedersen, F. A., and Sullivan, E. J. (1964). Relationship among geographic mobility, parental attitudes and emotional disturbances in children.Am. J. Orthopsychiat. 34: 575–580.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Shaw, J. (1982). Geographic mobility and the military child.Milit. Med. 140(6): 416–440.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

    Henry K. Watanabe

Authors
  1. Henry K. Watanabe
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

The contents herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center or the Department of Defense.

Received his M.D. from Tulane University. Research interests are adolescence and substance abuse.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Watanabe, H.K. A survey of adolescent military family members' self-image. J Youth Adolescence 14, 99–107 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02098650

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02098650

Keywords

Search

Navigation