Margaret Mead's groundbreaking work in culture and personality published in 1928 was a deliberate test of a Western psychological hypothesis.What was this hypothesis?

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Margaret Mead's work, particularly in her study "Coming of Age in Samoa," aimed to test the hypothesis that the stress and conflict experienced by American adolescents were not solely due to biological changes (maturing hormones) but were also significantly influenced by cultural factors. Her findings suggested that the turmoil observed in American teenagers was not a universal phenomenon, challenging the prevailing view that adolescent stress was biologically determined and the same across all cultures.

Margaret Mead's Groundbreaking Work in Culture and Personality Published in 1928