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Hill, Patrick L.; Turiano, Nicholas A.; Burrow, Anthony L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Feeling a sense of purpose in life appears to hold consistent benefits for positive aging and well-being. As such, it is important to consider the potential factors that promote or hinder the development of purposefulness over the lifespan. For instance, it remains unclear whether early life experiences, particularly adverse ones, may hold lasting…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Predictor Variables, Well Being, Lifelong Learning
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Thomsen, Tamara; Fritz, Viktoria; Mößle, Regine; Greve, Werner – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Coping research has consistently shown that accommodative coping is positively correlated with individuals' health. Until now, however, there have been little to no studies on the prognostic impact of accommodative coping on health, and only a few studies investigating its buffering effect on the relation between stress and health in childhood and…
Descriptors: Coping, Well Being, Children, Longitudinal Studies
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Guyer, Amanda E.; Caouette, Justin D.; Lee, Clinton C.; Ruiz, Sarah K. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Relative to children and adults, adolescents are highly focused on being evaluated by peers. This increased attention to peer evaluation has implications for emotion regulation in adolescence, but little is known about the characteristics of the evaluatee and evaluator that influence emotional reactions to evaluative outcomes. The present study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Response, Peer Evaluation, Predictor Variables
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Mustafic, Maida; Freund, Alexandra M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
Two studies examined the hypothesis that the evaluation of developmental stability changes across adulthood. Results of Study 1 ("N" = 119) supported the expectation that older adults ("M"[subscript age] = 65.29 years)--compared to younger ("M"[subscript age] = 23.38 years) and middle-aged adults…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Hypothesis Testing, Developmental Stages, Adults
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Dalbert, Claudia; Stoeber, Joachim – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
This article investigates the relationship between the personal belief in a just world (BJW) and domain-specific beliefs about justice and examines how justice cognitions impact on adolescents' development, particularly on their achievement at school and their subjective well-being. A longitudinal questionnaire study with German adolescents aged…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Beliefs