What is one potential criticism of methods used to assess emotional autonomy?
A) Interview questions may be too difficult for adolescents to comprehend.
B) That people who claim they are emotionally autonomous on questionnaires may not
really be independent.
C) Questionnaire methods often contain so many items that adolescents may lose interest in
the task.
D) Emotional autonomy scores often are not correlated with behavioral autonomy scores
from other assessments.
B
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