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Pearl, Joseph H. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1984
Suggests a resolution to the apparent conflict between the Freudian and humanistic/transpersonal views of human nature. Presents a model which allows for the fulfillment of Freud's desire to account for both the life and death instincts as manifestations of a tendency to restore an earlier state of things. (LLL)
Descriptors: Evolution, Humanism, Models, Personality Development
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Boyd, Robert D. – Small Group Behavior, 1989
Describes personal transformation in small groups method that employs Matrix Model as its operational structure in Part I of two-part article. Describes method's reliance on metaphors and nature and manner in which they are employed. Defines personal transformation within framework of analytical psychology. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Group Behavior, Group Therapy, Individual Psychology, Metaphors
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Highland, Anne C. – Child Welfare, 1979
Presents a review of new directions in theories of adolescence, and explores the relationship between adolescent development and depression. (CM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Depression (Psychology), Developmental Tasks
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Marsh, Caroline S.; Colangelo, Nicholas – Counseling and Values, 1983
Examines Allport's concept of unity and why his ideas have not been translated into clinical practice. Discusses how Dabrowski's concept of multilevelness organizes levels of development. The application of multilevelness to unity provides a model in which Allport's ideas are clarified and differentiates personality characteristics potentially…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Developmental Stages, Literature Reviews, Models
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Barrett, Thomas C.; Harren, Vincent A. – Counseling Psychologist, 1979
Reviews and comments upon articles by Jane Loevinger and Robert Kegan devoted to self and ego. A spiral-process model of self-conception is offered as an elaboration of the processes that might be involved in equilibration. The clarifying purpose of theory should not be forgotten. A phenomenological perspective is presented. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Individual Development, Models, Personality Development, Philosophy
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Royce, Joseph R.; Powell, Arnold – Impact of Science on Society, 1983
Presents an overview of the evolving conception of the nature of individual personality, showing how self-images emerge out of style-and-value commitments. Considers interactive relations between individual and society and the possible images of humankind that stem from societal style and value commitments. (JN)
Descriptors: Individual Development, Individual Psychology, Personality, Personality Development
Rimm, Sylvia – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1988
This reprinted 1985 article with a 1988 update discusses the identification of underachievement, especially in gifted children. It describes the Achievement Identification Measure, a parent report that measures certain underachievement characteristics including the ability to cope with competition, responsibility, self-control, positive…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Competition, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
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Hershenson, David B. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1982
Discusses Erickson's and Maslow's empirically based formulations of healthy development. Through integration of their systems, six trends are derived: survival, growth, communication, recognition, mastery, and understanding. Trends relate to self-functions, interpersonal functioning, and task performance. Relates trends to three aspects of…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Developmental Psychology
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Fagan, M. Michael; Ayers, Kenneth, Jr. – Criminal Justice and Behavior, 1982
Described the adult development of 23 police officers. Found that subjects passed through a series of psychosocial stages and that stress and stress management were an important part of this process. Training and administrative implications are discussed. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Tasks, Life Style
Evans, Nancy J., Ed.; Wall, Vernon A., Ed. – 1991
This book provides strategies for using what is known about gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals in a college student affairs setting. These chapters are included: (1) "The Development of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identities" (Heidi Levine and Nancy J. Evans); (2) "Using Psychosocial Development Theories To Understand and Work…
Descriptors: Bisexuality, Career Counseling, College Students, Colleges
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Taylor, Donald M.; Dube, Lise – Journal of Social Issues, 1986
The article asks the following questions about self-identity: (1) how do people derive a unitary sense of self out of membership in many social categories; (2) do people respond differently when the social as opposed to the personal aspects of their identity are evoked; and (3) how do people respond to collective injustice? (PS)
Descriptors: Moral Development, Personality Development, Racial Identification, Reference Groups
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Morgan, Elyse; Farber, Barry A. – Adolescence, 1982
Evaluates the effects of expanding sex-role alternatives on the passage of American middle-class women through the Eriksonian model of identity achievement. Contrasts contemporary norms regarding appropriate feminine roles with the more constricted social expectations of Erikson's time. Discusses validity of Erikson's original model of female…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Behavior Standards, Females, Interpersonal Relationship
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Semaj, Leahcim Tufani – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1981
Asserts that the existence of Blacks is suppressed by a White dominated world. Argues that social science as it presently exists is an inappropriate superstructure for the development of a psychology of liberation and presents "cultural science" as an alternative model. (Author/DA)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), African Culture, Black Culture, Blacks
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Cantor, Nancy – American Psychologist, 1990
Discusses a cognitive perspective on personality, focusing on how dispositions are cognitively expressed and maintained in social interaction. Shows how individuals interpret life tasks in light of their most accessible schemas, envisaging alternative future selves, and devising cognitive strategies to guide behavior. Discusses adaptiveness of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Daily Living Skills
Zakharova, A. V. – Soviet Education, 1990
Examines self-assessment as a personality structure that changes in its development as individuals mature. Explains prognosticative, actual (or correcting), and retrospective self-assessment. Develops a structural-dynamic explanatory model, characterizing self-assessment as a systemic formation. Relates self-evaluation to achievement, volitional…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Foreign Countries, Individual Psychology
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