ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the transactions between adolescents' personality organization on the one hand and the social relationships that surround them on the other. It presents data on the social relationships of three personality types and on the way that type membership and relationships interact in determining psychosocial functioning in adolescence. The chapter discusses various developmental patterns of stability and change of personality type during adolescence, and the antecedents and consequences of these developmental patterns. The first type is characterized by a high level of ego-resiliency and a moderate level of ego-control. A second type is characterized by a low level of ego-resiliency combined with a high level of ego-control. A third type is characterized by a low level of ego-resiliency combined with a low level of ego-control. Relational support from family and friends. The relational support inventory was used to measure the support that children receive from their parents, siblings, and a best friend.
