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Watts, Tuesday M.; Holmes, Luke; Raines, Jamie; Orbell, Sheina; Rieger, Gerulf – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Childhood gender nonconformity (femininity in males, masculinity in females) predicts a nonstraight (gay, lesbian, or bisexual) sexual orientation in adulthood. In previous work, nonstraight twins reported more childhood gender nonconformity than their genetically identical, but straight, cotwins. However, self-reports could be biased. We…
Descriptors: Twins, Sexual Orientation, Photography, Visual Aids
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Morgan, Jessica; Robinson, Oliver – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The present study examined adult age and sex differences in self-reported aspirations and personal meaning. Young, midlife, and older adults (N = 2,557) from the United Kingdom or United States completed an online survey of their aspiration striving, aspiration importance, and personal meaning (subscales of Purposeful Life, Exciting Life,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, World Views, Quality of Life
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Ntoumanis, Nikos; Taylor, Ian M.; Thogersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Embedded in achievement goal theory (Ames, 1992; Meece, Anderman, & Anderman, 2006), this study examined how perceptions of coach and peer motivational climate in youth sport predicted moral attitudes, emotional well-being, and indices of behavioral investment in a sample of British adolescents competing in regional leagues. We adopted a…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Longitudinal Studies, Goal Orientation, Foreign Countries