Adolescent Female Identity Development and Its Portrayal in Select Contemporary Young Adult Fiction

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Reavis, Evelyn F.
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • This study describes a content analysis of six contemporary young adult fiction novels. Adolescence is a time of great change, particularly for girls. It is during this time that female adolescents develop their voice and identity. As literature reflects the reader's world, it also affects in part how female adolescents perceive their identity. Latent content analysis was used to code eight variables to determine if select contemporary young adult fiction novels appropriately describe the development of identity among adolescent females. All of the novels included in the study provided sufficient evidence of accurate portrayal of female adolescent identity development, by having examples of at least four out of eight variables, with most having examples of seven out of eight variables.
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  • Sturm, Brian
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • December 10, 2010

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