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Dweck, Carol S. – 2000
Based on extensive research with children and young adults, this book examines adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows how these patterns originate in people's self theories; their consequences for one's achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society; and the experiences that…
Descriptors: Achievement, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
Dixon, Janice W.; Hudson, Lynne M. – 1982
Factors which aid an individual's progression from one stage of moral reasoning to another remain a mystery. Theorists suggest that intraception, defined as a predominance of feeling, fantasy, and aspirations (connoting a humanistic outlook and an ability to develop role-taking skills) as opposed to a down-to-earth, skeptical attitude, may be an…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Stages, Higher Education, Individual Development
Phinney, Jean S. – 1988
This paper presents a model and some empirical research on the process of ethnic identity development beyond childhood. Several models of ethnic identity development among minorities share with Erikson the idea that an achieved identity is the result of an identity crisis, which involves a period of searching that leads to a commitment. In order…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Black Students, College Students, Ethnic Groups

Dunn, Dana S. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Identifies imagoes as idealized and personified self-concepts that we form in early or mid-adulthood. These characters dominate life stories and personal myths. Discusses a class exercise where students review the imagoes most frequently used in journal entries concerning individual myths and major life events. (MJP)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Imagery, Individual Development, Learning Activities

Napieralski, Laura P.; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1995
Reports on a study of the effect of eye contact on 73 male and female college students. Finds that as eye contact duration increased, the model was judged to have less state anxiety, less trait anxiety, and less test anxiety. Concludes that the study confirms that as eye contact increases, an individual is judged more positively. (CFR)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Eye Contact, Facial Expressions, Fear
Mayton, Daniel M., II; And Others – 1992
Individuals such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully employed nonviolent strategies to attain significant political goals. Despite the implications of these achievements, psychologists rarely have studied predispositions to nonviolent behavior empirically. This study investigated the relationships among nonviolent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Behavior, Behavior Problems

Wagner, Patrick – Mental Retardation, 1991
The Tasks of Emotional Development is an apperceptive test that has the additional advantage of a specific developmental focus. Test administration and interpretation are described, focusing on use with adults with mental retardation. It is concluded that the test minimizes many biases plaguing accurate psychodiagnosis with this group. (JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Clinical Diagnosis, Developmental Stages, Diagnostic Tests

Rauh, Virginia A.; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Experimental group mothers reported significantly greater self-confidence and satisfaction with mothering and more favorable perception of infant temperament than did control group mothers. Differences between children on cognitive scores became significant at 36 and 48 months of age, when the experimental group caught up with normal children. (RH)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Birth Weight, Comparative Analysis, Individual Development
McNeer, Ann; And Others – 1983
The importance of role models for women achieving career success has received increased attention; however, there has been little agreement on a definition of the concept. To determine who college women say their role models are and to determine developmental discontinuities in women's reports of their role models, 377 college women completed two…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attitude Measures, College Students, Females
Buczynski, Patricia L. – 1990
A sample of 467 college freshmen attending a comprehensive, medium size, public institution on the mid-Atlantic coast was studied to examine the relationship between the development of identity and the development of cognition in traditional college freshmen. The sample was predominantly white (88.3%) and of the total number, 51 percent were male…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests, College Freshmen, Correlation
Merriam, Sharan B. – 1984
The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesize the literature on adult development and to suggest how this information can be applied to the practice of adult education. The first section discusses the nature of adult development, its definition, and key concepts. Sequential patterns of change in adulthood are examined in section 2,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adults, Career Counseling
Gordon, Ron – 1983
A study investigated the process of giving interpersonal feedback in two continuing human relations groups to determine (1) the proportion of feedback perceived as useful for personal and interpersonal development, (2) the relationship between giving feedback that is perceived as useful and receiving that feedback, and (3) the relationship between…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Feedback
Sander, Louis W. – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1987
This paper presents the individual's life span trajectory as a unique construction within a unique context for that individual's interactional and adaptive self-regulatory strategies. Issues of adaptive coordination between caregiver and infant are discussed, and five propositions concerning individual development summarize the work. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Developmental Psychology, Early Experience, Individual Development
Thoma, Stephen J. – Moral Education Forum, 1994
Maintains that the Defining Issues Test (DIT) is now the most frequently used measure of moral judgment development. Reviews the history of DIT research. Asserts that the measurement system provided by the DIT would put the cognitive developmental approach in a better position to affect change in the moral development field. (CFR)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction

Cheung, Chau-Kiu; Kwok, Siu-Tong – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Hypothesizes that a conservative and individualistic orientation results in the fatalistic, alienated, and helpless outlook known as hopelessness. Provides extensive references to studies and theories characterizing conservatism and a work ethic belief as manifestations of an a maladaptive stage of psychological development. (MJP)
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Beliefs, College Students, Conservatism
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