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Download full textLandsman, Ted – 1968
The author believes that an aspect of human behavior being glossed over in psychological studies is the superb, beautiful person. He defines this individual as being: (1) free of abnormalities, (2) basically normal, well balanced, and mentally healthy, and (3) possessed of a unique group of characteristics which establish his being out of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Emotional Development, Emotional Experience
Furman, Wyndol; Lanthier, Richard P. – Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology, 1996
This study examined the role personality variables play in sibling relationships. It proposed that the characteristics of sibling relationships are influenced by: family constellation variables such as birth order, gender, and age spacing; parent-child relationships including quality of relationship and parent management of siblings; and the…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Emotional Development, Family Life, First Born
Sheldon-Keller, Adrienne; West, Malcolm – 1995
This paper synthesizes a variety of perspectives, with an emphasis on attachment theory, on the agency/communion polarity as first defined by David Bakan (1966). The question researchers sought to answer was whether or not agency/communion is best approached as a polarity--opposite and opposing forces, forces in the personality which have often…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Development, Individual Characteristics, Individual Development
Honig, Alice Sterling – 1996
Infants have definite personality characteristics from birth onward. Despite wide variation in infant temperament styles, ranging from easy to difficult, responsive parents and non-parental caregivers can ensure positive emotional-social development. This paper, which reviews various theories and research on personality development in infants and…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers
Mathew, Saritha S.; And Others – 1995
This study investigates characteristics of juvenile delinquency and youth violence by examining attachment and social problem skills. Attachment theory integrates features of psychoanalytic theory, ethology, and cognitive psychology. Research on adolescent attachment suggests that parents continue to function as a secure base for their teenage…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Delinquency, Emotional Development
Bell, Lloyd H.; Johnson, Norman J. – 1972
In this paper are examined the psychological and emotional development of black children. The argument is that developmental schemes built for one set of people are lacking as a model when used to analyze the development of a set of different people. Man is both "a situated" and "an accumulating" being. He develops in the context of situations…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Black Power, Blacks, Emotional Development
