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Robinson, Oliver C.; Demetre, James D.; Litman, Jordan A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
During periods of developmental crisis, individuals experience uncomfortable internal incongruence and are motivated to reduce this through forms of exploration of self, other and world. Based on this, we inferred that being in a crisis would relate positively to curiosity and negatively to a felt sense of authenticity. A quasi-experimental design…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Adults, Predictor Variables, Personality Traits
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Kim-Spoon, Jungmeen; Kahn, Rachel; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Chiu, Pearl; Steinberg, Laurence; King-Casas, Brooks – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
Adolescence is characterized by increasing incidence of health risk behaviors, including experimentation with drugs and alcohol. To fill the gap in our understanding of the associations between risky decision-making and health risk behaviors, we investigated associations between laboratory-based risky decision-making using the Stoplight task and…
Descriptors: Risk, Decision Making, Traffic Safety, Correlation
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Zimmermann, Peter; Iwanski, Alexandra – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Despite the growing research on emotion regulation, the empirical evidence for normative age-related emotion regulation patterns is rather divergent. From a life-span perspective, normative age changes in emotion regulation may be more salient applying the same methodological approach on a broad age range examining both growth and decline during…
Descriptors: Self Control, Adolescent Development, Early Adolescents, Developmental Stages