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The Life Narrative at Midlife
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McAdams, Dan P. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2014
In a remarkably prescient chapter, Bertram Cohler (1982) reimagined the problems and the potentialities of psychological development across the life course as a distinctively human challenge in life narration. This chapter situates Cohler's original vision within the intellectual and scientific matrix of the late 1970s, wherein psychologists…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Midlife Transitions, Individual Development, Developmental Psychology
Understanding Emerging Adulthood from a Goal-Setting Perspective
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Shulman, Shmuel; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2010
The chapter first introduces the concept of emerging adulthood as a period of life that is characterized by instabilities and fluctuations. Then, the role of goal setting and aspirations in individual development during this stage of life is discussed. Following this, seven chapters of the present special issue are introduced, and the ways in…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Individual Development, Young Adults, Adolescents