Paths to successful development : personality in the life course /

This important new book, edited by two distinguished psychologists, explores the relationship between personality and development and is unique in focussing on successful development, where developmental psychology in the past seems to have focused almost entirely on problem behaviour and risk of ma...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Pulkkinen, Lea, Caspi, Avshalom
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Personality and paths to successful development : an overview / Lea Pulkkinen, Avshalom Caspi
  • Temperament and socialization / Mary K. Rothbart, Samuel P. Putnam
  • The role of emotionality and regulation in children's social competence and adjustment / Nancy Eisenberg [and others]
  • Attachment relationships and appraisal of partnership : from early experience of sensitive support to later relationship representation / Klaus E. Grossmann [and others]
  • How do adolescents select thier friends? A behavior-genetic perspective / Richard J. Rose
  • Personality types in childhood and adolescence : main effects and person-relationship transactions / Marcel A.G. van Aken [and others]
  • The influence of early behavior patterns on later life / Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Robert Crosnoe
  • Studying processes : some methodological considerations / Lars R. Bergman
  • The role of ethnic identity in personality development / Brett Laursen, Vickie Williams
  • Time and change : psychosocial transitions in German young adults 1991 and 1996 / Rainer K. Silbereisen, Matthias Reitzle, Linda Juang
  • Developmental regulation of life-course transitions : a control theory approach / Jutta Heckhausen
  • Social selection, social causation, and developmental pathways : empirical strategies for better understanding how individuals and environments are linked across the life-course / Avshalom Caspi
  • Pathways through challenge : implicatons for well-being and health / Carol D. Ryff, Burton H. Singer, Marsha Mailick Seltzer
  • Individual differences in personal goals in mid-thirties / Lea Pulkkinen, Jari-Erik Nurmi, Katja Kokko
  • Social-production function (SPF) theory as an heuristic for understanding developmental trajectories and outcomes / Johan Ormel
  • Searching for paths to successful development and aging : integrating developmental and action-theoretical perspectives / Jochen Brandtstädter.