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Wiesmann, Ulrich; Hannich, Hans-Joachim – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2011
This study examines the hypothesis that the outcome of the Eriksonian crisis of integrity vs. despair is dependent on successful coping with four developmental tasks: maintenance of active involvement, reevaluation of life satisfaction, developing a sense of health maintenance, and reevaluation of the sense of coherence (SOC). A selective sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Developmental Tasks, Older Adults
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Molenaar, Peter C. M.; Campbell, Cynthia G. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
In his introduction to this special issue, Roger Millsap has given an excellent summary of its contents. This eases our task considerably. In what follows, we first present some general observations about growth curve modeling of longitudinal data. Among other things, we will address the criticism that the popular latent growth curve model may…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Models, Factor Analysis
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Schlaghecken, Friederike; Blagrove, Elisabeth; Maylor, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Subliminal motor priming effects in the masked prime paradigm can only be obtained when primes are part of the task set. In 2 experiments, the authors investigated whether the relevant task set feature needs to be explicitly instructed or could be extracted automatically in an incidental learning paradigm. Primes and targets were symmetrical…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Experiments, Models, Developmental Tasks
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Vlamis, Ekaterini; Bell, Brent J.; Gass, Michael – Journal of Experiential Education, 2011
This study examined the effects of an adventure orientation program on the student development behaviors of incoming first-year students at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. Student development was measured by a condensed version of the Student Development Task Inventory-2 (CSDTI-2; Gass, 1986; Winston, Miller, & Prince, 1979). Data…
Descriptors: Student Development, Adventure Education, Task Analysis, Developmental Tasks
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Luyckx, Koen; Lens, Willy; Smits, Ilse; Goossens, Luc – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
Planning for the future and developing a personalized identity are conceived of as important developmental tasks that adolescents and emerging adults are confronted with on the pathway to adulthood. The present study set out to examine whether both tasks develop in tandem by using a short-term longitudinal dataset consisting of 371 college…
Descriptors: College Students, Structural Equation Models, Time Perspective, Cognitive Processes
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Bers, Marina Umaschi – New Directions for Youth Development, 2010
In a digital era in which technology plays a role in most aspects of a child's life, having the competence and confidence to use computers might be a necessary step, but not a goal in itself. Developing character traits that will serve children to use technology in a safe way to communicate and connect with others, and providing opportunities for…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Educational Technology, Metacognition, Developmental Tasks
Prendergast, Kathleen; Stone, Mark – 1990
This paper integrates the interpersonal model of Schutz (1966) and Schutz's (1978) instrument for evaluating interpersonal relationships, FIRO-B (Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation-Behavior), with Adler's life tasks and typology. The paper begins with a description of Schutz's Interpersonal model in which Schutz, like Adler, views…
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Interpersonal Relationship, Models
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Troseth, Georgene L.; Pickard, Megan E. Bloom; Deloache, Judy S. – Developmental Science, 2007
Using a symbolic object such as a model as a source of information about something else requires some appreciation of the relation between the symbol and what it represents. Representational insight has been proposed as essential to success in a symbolic retrieval task in which children must use information from a hiding event in a scale model to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Models, Knowledge Representation, Schematic Studies
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Fischer, Judith L.; Forthun, Larry F.; Pidcock, Boyd W.; Dowd, Duane A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
This study tested associations between problems in parent-youth relationships and problems with alcohol use among college students (N = 1592) using structural equation modeling. Hypotheses were that relationships between both substance-specific parenting factors (parental drinking) and non-substance-specific parenting factors (parental intrusive…
Descriptors: Campuses, Maturity (Individuals), Structural Equation Models, Child Rearing
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Blyth, Dale A. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2006
The field of youth development is based on a long tradition of youth work practice, a body of research on adolescent development, an increasing understanding of developmental processes, and work in related applied fields like education and child care. Whereas multiple lists have emerged describing what comprises or is needed for youth development,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Youth Programs, Models, Developmental Psychology
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Vaughter, Reesa M. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1975
Assessed the relative difficulty in the utilization of oddity and matching response strategies in 144 children, ages 5-13 years. A model of matching and oddity problem-solving is presented based on the data collected. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Tasks, Elementary School Students, Models
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Crosby, John F.; And Others – Journal of Divorce, 1983
Compares grief in divorce to the Kubler-Ross model of grief resolution in bereavement in 17 persons who wrote essays about their divorce. The results suggested a conceptual model based on three chronological stages with linear progression through the stages, characterized by circularity within each stage. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adults, Developmental Tasks, Divorce, Emotional Adjustment
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Savickas, Mark L. – Career Development Quarterly, 1994
Notes that Super's work to linguistically explicate and operationally define career development and its central processes has strongly influenced how counselors comprehend and guide their clients' vocational behavior. Explains how Super conceptualized career development in terms of life stages and developmental tasks, and how he proposed that…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Development
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Bloch, Henriette – Child Development, 2000
Notes that the Piagetian perspective admits the existence of interindividual differences but interprets them as noise masking the universal logical succession of structures, whereas the differential perspective views development as consisting of "vicarious processes." Asserts that the main aim of the "procedural studies"…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks
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Schlesinger, Hilde S. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2000
This "classic" article (1972) in the field of deaf studies includes some interpretive notes for current readers. The article examines the effect of deafness on basic developmental tasks at each of the eight developmental stages of Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development and explains the more successful passage through these…
Descriptors: Child Development, Deafness, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages
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