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Petiet, Carole Anne – 1984
To systematically test previous assumptions about grief in widows and divorcing women, 410 separated, divorced, or widowed women, between the ages of 23 and 76, with at least one child, completed the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist, the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale, the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory--Form C, the Attachment Index, and the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Divorce, Emotional Response
Thomas, Sandra P. – 1984
There is increasing acceptance of the premise that growth and development continue throughout adult life and, as life expectancy has lengthened, there is a much expanded mid-life period. Yet, middle adulthood has been neglected as an area of theoretical and empirical examination. Adults (N=251) in middle adulthood (age 35-55) completed instruments…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Development, Heredity, Locus of Control
Wilson, W. Elbert; And Others – 1983
Career development programs can benefit from knowledge of the needs and characteristics of their participants. To investigate whether certain types of individuals seek career development assistance more often than others, 279 self-selected white collar employees of a large, federal biomedical research company completed the Myers Briggs Type…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance
Gilewski, Michael J.; Zelinski, Elizabeth M. – 1982
Self-report research has inconclusively linked complaints of poor memory functioning, memory performance, and intellectual ability with depression in older adults. In order to investigate more conclusively the correlation between these variables as well as to investigate the effect of age differences, 159 older adults (49 young-old, aged 55-70; 60…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Processes
Paulhus, Delroy; Martin, Carol – 1983
While minor physical anomalies (MPAs), a set of 17 non-obvious but measurable characteristics of the hands, face and feet, have been linked to a number of behavioral syndromes in children, such personality correlates of MPAs in adults have not been studied. To explore the relationshp between MPAs and temperament in a college sample, 114 students…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Behavior Problems, College Students, Congenital Impairments
Thomas, Sandra P. – 1992
Although health is a key element in one's experience of middle adulthood as a time of productivity and personal fulfillment, research on psychosocial factors predictive of mid-life health is sparse, especially for women. Psychosocial variables are not only highly salient to health, but also are potentially modifiable by women themselves. This…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Females, Locus of Control
Holland, John L. – 1982
Structural-interactive vocational theory shows that both aspirational and work histories have continuity over the life span and provide useful explanations of stability and change. This paper suggests some implications of structural-interactive theory for the study of adult development. Common principles of structural-interactive theories are…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Aging (Individuals), Career Change
Comfort, Helen Courtney – 1981
Midlife transition is a potentially problematic time for all women, but especially for those who are unmarried, relatively less well-educated, and who do not reside in urban areas. Some studies suggest that unmarried women have more difficulty in identity formation and acceptance of their role by society. Married women whose children are nearly…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Coping, Developmental Stages, Educational Attainment