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Rogers, Adam A.; Updegraff, Kimberly A.; Iida, Masumi; Dishion, Thomas J.; Doane, Leah D.; Corbin, William C.; Van Lenten, Scott A.; Ha, Thao – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The college transition is uniquely challenging for many first-year students. Few studies have investigated developmental change in students' adjustment across this brief, but significant transition, nor the daily interpersonal dynamics that are associated with adjustment across this same time. Guided by ecological and stage-environment fit…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Interaction, Family Relationship
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Orth, Ulrich; Erol, Ruth Yasemin; Ledermann, Thomas; Grob, Alexander – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Common sense suggests that romantic partners tend to be interdependent in their well-being and self-esteem. The authors tested the degree to which codevelopment in romantic partners (i.e., development in similar directions) is due to mutual influence between partners or due to the effects of shared environment, using longitudinal data from 5…
Descriptors: Well Being, Self Esteem, Intimacy, Interpersonal Relationship
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Windsor, Tim D.; Curtis, Rachel G.; Luszcz, Mary A. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Having a sense of purpose is recognized as an important resource for maintaining health and well-being over the life span. We examined associations of individual differences in sense of purpose with levels and rates of change in indices of aging well (health, cognition, and depressive symptoms) in a sample of 1,475 older adults (M[subscript age] =…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Well Being, Individual Differences, Scores
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Infurna, Frank J.; Ram, Nilam; Gerstorf, Denis – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Perceived control plays an important role for health across adulthood and old age. However, little is known about the factors that account for such associations and whether changes in control (or control trajectory) uniquely predict major health outcomes over and above mean levels of control. Using data from the nationwide Americans' Changing…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Death, Predictor Variables, Mortality Rate