Abstract
The purposes of this study were to (1) describe the personalities of late adolescents who were unbalanced in acceptance of self and others, (2) confirm that adolescents with high acceptance of both self and others had adaptive and mature traits, and (3) discuss these results from the viewpoint of developmental psychology. Adolescents (N=124) completed the Acceptance of Self and Others Scale, and the Individual and Social PN Orientedness Scales. The results showed that participants who reported high self-acceptance and low acceptance of others tended to have higher self-actualization but lower social adjustment. In contrast, those who scored low in self-acceptance and high in acceptance of others had lower self-actualization and a stronger tendency toward over-adjustment. In addition, adolescents reporting high self-acceptance and high acceptance of others were more adaptive and mature than other adolescents.
