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Jacobsen, Teresa; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Attachment representations and self-confidence were assessed at age 7 on the basis of children's responses to a separation story and independent observations, although cognitive functioning was measured at ages 7-17 years based on a battery of Piagetian tasks assessing concrete and formal reasoning. Children with a secure attachment representation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Childhood Attitudes, Children

Sharpe, Pamela – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1994
Describes some preliminary results comparing two groups of children's performance on a set of Piagetian conservation tasks. Findings highlight the need to sensitize parents and teachers to current views on appropriate learning environments for young children, particularly the strategies they might use to make sense of their experiences. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Parent Participation, Parent Role, Piagetian Theory

Miller, Patricia H.; Aloise-Young, Patricia A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1995
Examined preschoolers' strategic behavior on a task in which they must decide whether two arrays are the same. Results indicated that the course of strategy development is complex, there is much diversity within a child and among children in both strategy production and strategy utilization, and that children act in ways that are counter to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks, Preschool Children

Lee, Hing-chu B.; And Others – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1992
Examined relationship between coping styles and psychological distress in nonclinical sample of 832 Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. Factor analyses suggest adolescents used relatively similar coping strategies. Four broad coping styles were identified. Avoidance/blaming was found to be a significant and moderately strong predictor of psychological…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Developmental Tasks, Foreign Countries

Lopez, Frederick G.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1992
Proposed and tested model for predicting college students' (n=224) identity. Sequentially considered information on students' reported conflictual independence from parents and their current mood states and generalized self-efficacy. Model explained significant variance in criterion measure for both sexes; respective contributions of model…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, College Students, Developmental Tasks
Calder, Kim Judith – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1990
The paper discusses the interaction of learning disabilities with the typical developmental tasks of adolescence and adulthood. Typical high school programs (resource room and segregated classroom models) are reviewed to determine how services can better meet the needs of this age group. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delivery Systems, Developmental Tasks, Educational Needs

Klaczynski, Paul A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1994
In a preliminary ethnographic study, the developmental tasks of 23 first-year and 20 fourth-year medical students were assessed with reference to practical problem solving. Findings provide direct support for a relationship between practical intellectual development and life course contexts. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Context Effect, Developmental Tasks

Vondracek, Fred W.; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Reitzle, Matthias; Wiesner, Margit – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1999
This study compared the timing of early vocational preferences in young adolescents from former East Germany and West Germany. Results suggested that as the memory of the Communist system fades and as younger adolescents have had less exposure to it, East-West differences tend to disappear. The formation of early vocational preferences was…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Career Choice, Career Development, Comparative Analysis

Papadopoulos, Timothy C.; Panayiotou, Georgia; Spanoudis, George; Natsopoulos, Demetrios – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2005
This study examined the planning performance of children with attention deficits, and also investigated the possible interactions between inattention and anxiety in the performance of executive function tasks. A group of 98 children (grades 4 and 6), derived from an initial group of 550, were assigned to an attention difficulties group (AD) and a…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Anxiety, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development
Korobov, Neill; Bamberg, Michael – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
This article presents a discursive psychological approach in examining the ways that adolescent boys (ages 12-15 years) accomplish a sense of "maturity" by bringing off and managing certain features of "heterosexuality" in group interaction. We focus on and analyse moments when the boys negotiate implicit challenges, make evaluations and offer…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Sexual Orientation, Interaction, Adolescents
Skorikov, Vladimir – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
Career preparation represents a major developmental task of adolescence, which has not received sufficient attention in empirical research on career development. Thus, this study was designed to examine the structure, continuity, and change in adolescent career preparation and its relationships with adjustment. The data were collected from a…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Adolescents, Social Integration, Developmental Tasks
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Test Collection. – 1990
This bibliography is made up of 121 questionnaires, checklists, and scales used for determination or evaluation, of the level of development of infants and young children (ages 0-6). Some of the instruments identify individuals who may have developmental problems. This document is one in a series of topical bibliographies from the Test Collection…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Cognitive Tests, Developmental Disabilities
Robinson, Violet B. – 1987
The relationship of concrete operations to beginning reading was investigated with three samples of early readers and prereaders: prekindergarten and kindergarten children who were early readers and those who were not yet reading. Piagetian tasks on conservation of number, conservation of quantity, seriation, multiple classification, and class…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Tasks, Early Childhood Education
Pollman, Mary Jo; Roberts, Leonard – 1991
Several conditions, identified by Cambourne (1988) as contributing to children becoming successful language users, have been simulated in Australian schools in order for children to feel self-assured in mastering writing and reading just as these conditions have promoted the developmental process of talking in the home. The conditions are:…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Tasks, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Torbert, William R. – 1983
Although a psychological theory of stages of transformation in human development currently exists, organizational researchers have yet to elaborate and test any theory of organizational transformation of comparable elegance. According to the organizational stage theory being developed since 1974 by William Torbert, bureaucratic organization, which…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages