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Konig, Susanne; Gluck, Judith – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
Previous studies with adults have shown that age has an important influence on laypeople's wisdom theories. However, children's and adolescents' understanding of the concept of wisdom has hardly been investigated. In the current study, 80 children and adolescents completed a questionnaire concerning an event where they had been wise and an event…
Descriptors: Barriers, Accidents, Age, Adolescents
Markunas, Patricia V. – 1978
The age-status system in adulthood was investigated, using a 58-item instrument which divided adulthood subjectively into three periods: normative expectations for various adulthood developmental tasks (marriage, parenthood, employment, retirement, etc.); the lower age constraints ("too young") for these behaviors. In addition, 22 items regarding…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Age, Age Differences