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Peer reviewedPinquart, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Wiesner, Margit – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2004
Individuals direct their own development by setting developmental goals and striving for goal attainment. Human development includes reductions in discrepancies between desired and actual states, as is the case in goal attainment and reduction of aspirations, as well as increases of discrepancies, for example, when individuals increase their…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Developmental Tasks, Goal Orientation
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Dekovic, Maja – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1997
Perceptions of parents and their adolescent children about a number of developmental tasks were compared for 508 Dutch families. Parents consistently indicated later ages for the achievement of developmental tasks than did adolescents, but they had similar views of the sequence in which achievement of developmental tasks should occur. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks
