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Lena Söldner; Maria Mammen; Markus Paulus – Developmental Psychology, 2024
The moral self-concept (MSC) is an early indicator of how children view themselves as moral agents. It has been proposed that an important feature of an established self-concept (SC) is sufficient coherency in how one views oneself. Furthermore, the MSC is expected to develop into a multidimensional, hierarchical construct which is stable over…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Self Concept, Moral Development, Individual Development
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Chen, Xidan; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Parker, Philip D.; Marsh, Herbert W. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study evaluated the nature of the life satisfaction construct with an emphasis on the comparison between a global or domain-specific operationalization during the transition from adolescence to adulthood. A combination of person-centered and variable-centered methods were used to analyze 7 waves of data covering the postschool transition from…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Individual Development, Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents
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Tucker-Drob, Elliot M. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Existing representations of cognitive ability structure are exclusively based on linear patterns of interrelations. However, a number of developmental and cognitive theories predict that abilities are differentially related across ages (age differentiation-dedifferentiation) and across levels of functioning (ability differentiation). Nonlinear…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Age Differences, Factor Analysis, Models