The authors discuss the concept of life-world. Transformation of the life-world is analyzed and three developmental stages are distinguished: (1) the self-evident, (2) the threatened, and (3) the transformed life-world. The importance of this transformation in relation to adult education is explored and the developmental stages related to the…

Reviews current concepts and research concerning homosexuality with emphasis on understanding gay men and their relationship behaviors. Presents counseling considerations from a developmental perspective, and includes a case example. (Author/KS)

Discusses the relationship between vocational maturity and a set of developmental and/or psychological characteristics--moral development and social interest among adolescents. The conclusions and counselling implications suggest that vocational maturity is significantly correlated with social interest and moral development. (Author/BL)

The article describes the nature of path-referenced student assessment (which provides quantitative scales for measuring educational progress linked to validated developmental sequences), its relationship to instructional management, and how path-referenced assessment relates to adaptive measurement systems.(Author/DB)

Proposes a five-stage processing model, the Contextual Organization Model for Processing and Evaluation (COMPE), based on an analysis of stage theories in group development. The five potentially universal stages have been shown to have an analogous relationship to the stages of theories in many fields of psychology. (JAC)

When not socially engaged, children showed a significantly greater percentage of reoriented attention during vocalizing than nonvocalizing periods. Findings confirm the existence of an attention/vocalization relation and are consonant with Greenfield's predictions about the nature of this relation. The relation held equally for prelinguistic and…

Young children (mean age = 5.8) gave as examples of ambivalence two unrelated events associated with different emotions. At the next stage children (mean age = 7.0) were able to connect sequentially to events. At a third stage (mean age 10.1) the children were able to conceive of situations in which two emotions of opposite valence occurred…

Using family life stages, life span careers by stages are constructed for several empirically distinct types of single-parent families. The paths of divorced, widowed, and remarried women depart in distinctive ways from the cental highway of model two-parent families in timing and duration of family stages over the life span. (Author/BL)

A developmental approach to problem solving is described as it relates to J. Renzulli's Enrichment Triad Model for gifted education. (CL)

The phonological processes exhibited by 50 three-, four-, and five-year-old children were evaluated using Phonological Process Analysis. The examined processes decreased as a function of age, although several processes were rarely used by any age group and no differences related to sex were apparent. (Author/CL)

Displays that by themselves always elicited chance judgment of number were shown to three- to four-year-olds and six- to seven-year-olds. The first display was transformed into the second, and so on. Results indicated that three- to four-year-olds do not understand conservation of number because judgements of successive displays were independent…

Focused on the interactional stage differences between successful and unsuccessful time-limited counseling using six dyads. Moderate support was found for the hypothesized general stage model of high-low-high complementarity for the three successful dyads. All three unsuccessful dyads had constant levels of complementarity and did not fit the…

By describing the activity theory of learning, this article presents the Soviet position on learning theory and ties psychological research in the USSR to the current Marxist approach to the solution of instructional problems. (BW)

Children's understanding of dreams as mental states was examined as an instance of their development of a "theory of mind." Thirty-five children between three and seven years of age were interviewed to determine how well they understood the reality, location, privacy, origin, and controllability of their own dreams, versus that of a…

Spiritual living demands growth, and spiritual development has many parallels with human development. Ministers who are knowledgeable of the various stages are best prepared to assist and optimize spiritual growth. The primary benefit of nurturing believers through developmental stages is assured spiritual health and maturity in the context of a…