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The Use of Adult Development Theory with Graduate Students.
Kuh, George D.; Thomas, Marilyn L. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1983
Examined whether graduate students (N=40) experienced developmental transitions similar to those suggested in adult development theories by using a structured interview protocol to collect data on developmental tasks. Findings indicated that the developmental transitions reflected in a composite developmental framework were applicable to graduate…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Developmental Stages
Informational Analysis of Sequential Behavior in Aged and Young People
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Fields, Charlotte; Kimmel, H. D. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Younger men are both less engaged from the world and more efficient processors of information than older (especially less educated) ones. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
Age Norms and Age Constraints in Adulthood.
Markunas, Patricia V. – 1978
The age-status system in adulthood was investigated, using a 58-item instrument which divided adulthood subjectively into three periods: normative expectations for various adulthood developmental tasks (marriage, parenthood, employment, retirement, etc.); the lower age constraints ("too young") for these behaviors. In addition, 22 items regarding…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Age, Age Differences
Developmental, Emotional, and Interest Factors in Voluntary Mid-Career Change
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Vaitenas, Rimantas; Weiner, Yoash – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
Young (N=38) and 2( older career changers in business-managerial occupations were compared to 45 young and 40 older vocationally stable controls with respect to several characteristics. Results showed career changers were characterized by high incongruity, emotional maladjustment, and fear of failure, and low differentiation and consistency of…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Career Change
Evidence for Cohort or Generational Differences in the Drinking Behavior of Older Adults.
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Meyers, Allan R.; And Others – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1981
Surveyed 928 older Bostonians and found a negative correlation between age and alcohol consumption among older adults. Retrospective data suggest that there are cohort or generational patterns of drinking behavior by older adults. Survey provides no insight into the historical factors which account for the differences in alcohol use. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Alcoholic Beverages, Behavior Patterns
Adaptation and the Life Cycle
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Neugarten, Bernice L. – Counseling Psychologist, 1976
This paper is concerned with adaptation through time and with life time as differentiated from calendar or historical time. Life time is that of socially defined time; thus the author examines the system of social expectations regarding age-appropriate behavior which requires adaptive behavior on the part of adults. (SJL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Development, Adults, Age Differences
Adult Development, Control, and Adaptive Functioning.
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Schulz, Richard; And Others – Journal of Social Issues, 1991
Research suggests that primary control increases as humans develop from infancy through middle age and then decreases in old age. To minimize losses, individuals rely on cognitively based secondary control processes in middle and old age. Literature on adult control processes is reviewed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adult Development, Adults