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Proulx, Travis; Chandler, Michael J. – Human Development, 2009
This research details the changing ways in which young people of different ages differently warrant the conviction that, notwithstanding evidence of good and bad behaviours, selves can be understood as unified across the various roles and contexts that they occupy. Canadian adolescents and young adults were asked to explain the apparent disunity…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior
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Izard, Carroll E. – Human Development, 1995
Discusses the article by Lewis in this issue in the context of complex systems theory. Reviews several concepts of complex systems theory, including self-organization, entropy, phase transitions, stochastic processes, nonlinearity, and attractors. Notes that Lewis highlights the need for psychological models to treat nonlinear processes, chaotic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Entropy, Models, Organization
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Smith, Robert J. – Human Development, 1985
Presents propositions fundamental to a comprehensive Marxist theory of personality: five premises about the ontological nature of the person and four about underlying expresssive personality characteristics. Differences between the proposed theory and traditional theories are discussed in terms of sociohistorical influence, the nature of…
Descriptors: Humanism, Marxism, Personality Development, Personality Theories
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Lewis, Marc D. – Human Development, 1995
Presents a model of cognition and emotion that suggests that feedback between cognition and emotion generates, maintains, and reconfigures interpretations of emotion-eliciting events at micro- and macrodevelopmental time scales and that personality and behavior self-organize in response to fluctuations in perception or cognition and trace…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Feedback, Individual Differences, Models
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Thomae, Hans – Human Development, 1979
Summarizes the major forms of cross-cultural research on personality development and discusses their contribution to developmental research. Also discusses some major issues in research on acculturation. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Children, Cross Cultural Studies, Cross Sectional Studies
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Newman, Barbara N. – Human Development, 1979
Describes the results of four longitudinal studies of adolescent development that focus on coping styles, maturity of defenses, adaptation to school environments, and predictors of educational and occupational attainment. Implications are discussed in terms of linking adolescence with other phases of development. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Coping, Longitudinal Studies
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McKinney, J. P. – Human Development, 1980
Investigates the validity of a semiprojective measure of "engagement" with respect to the differential effects of family size. Engagement style refers to the perception one has of oneself as either doing (agent) or being done to (patient). Subjects were 51 male college students ranging in age from 18 to 26 years. (SS)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Employed Parents, Family Influence
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Witkin, Herman A. – Human Development, 1979
Summarizes the theory of psychological differentiation and reviews recent cross-cultural research on the roles of child rearing, culture, and ecology in the development of individual, group, and sex differences in the field dependence-field independence cognitive style component of psychological differentiation. (SS)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Cross Cultural Studies
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Wenar, Charles – Human Development, 1982
Presents a working definition of negativism and a reconstruction of its development in the first year of life. New issues concerning the origins and nature of negativism are raised in the light of recent findings concerning attachment, autonomy, and temperament. Special attention is given to the development of "No" and symbolic negation.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attachment Behavior, Child Language, Infants
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Diaz-Guerrero, R. – Human Development, 1979
Discusses the meaning of coping style and reviews research tasks which appear to be particularly sensitive measures of cross-cultural differences in active-passive coping style. (SS)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Assertiveness, Associative Learning, Children
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Holtzman, W. H. – Human Development, 1979
Reviews the research methods, design, and main findings of the Austin-Mexico City cross-cultural study of personality and intellectual development using an overlapping longitudinal design. A span of 12 years of development was extrapolated from six years of repeated testing with children ages 6, 9, and 12 years. (SS)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Style, Coping, Cross Cultural Studies