The Development of Interpersonal Understanding during Childhood, Preadolescence, and Adolescence: A Longitudinal Follow-Up Study.

GURUCHARmi, CARMEL, and SELMAN, ROBERT L. The Development of Interpersonal Understanding during Childhood, Preadolescence, and Adolescence: A Longitudinal Follow-Up Study. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1982, 53, 924-927. Of 48 male subjects in an initial 2-year-interval follow-up interview study of social perspective taking levels, 41 subjects were reinterviewed 3 years later with the same interview procedures. Results supported the hypothesized sequential order of developmental levels. In addition, children who advanced only one sublevel or less from time 1 to time 2 were more likely to advance 2 or more sublevels in the subsequent assessment. Followup gains for subjects who made larger initial gains were less predictable.