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Middle adulthood is a critical period of the life course. How we develop in middle age–the central period of our lives–can influence how well we cope in our later years. Middle Adulthood: A Lifespan Perspective explores these issues by bringing together a distinguished group of international contributors associated with a range of prestigious longitudinal studies.
Personality in Young Adulthood and Functioning in Middle Age
Personality in Young Adulthood and Functioning in Middle Age
Framework for the Study of Adult Personality Development
The development of adult personality can be viewed from many perspectives. The most dominant theoretical approaches to personality development across the entire life span specify the temporal order of life stages such as childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, and stress an individual's potential for positive growth. Implicit in the stage approach is a dynamic change in personality throughout the life course (e.g., Lachman & Bertrand, 2001). Erik H. Erikson (1950) analyzed an individual's growth through age stages in terms of ego within the psychoanalytical framework, and Havighurst (1948) in terms of developmental tasks referring to social-role demands in individuals' ...
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