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Article: Psychosexual characteristics of female university students in Brazil.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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INTRODUCTION
To a great extent, the cultural context determines the manifestations of adolescence, although one cannot deny the importance of the psychological substratum which confers universal characteristics to this phase of development. A knowledge of these two components permits the assessment of an approximate concept of normality in a given social milieu.
The concept of normality in this case does not necessarily coincide with health, but rather with a set of norms established for a given social group. Roughly speaking, it can be said that deviance from such norms characterizes pathology, although this is a very delicate question, especially in ...