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Proulx, Travis; Chandler, Michael J. – Human Development, 2009
This research details the changing ways in which young people of different ages differently warrant the conviction that, notwithstanding evidence of good and bad behaviours, selves can be understood as unified across the various roles and contexts that they occupy. Canadian adolescents and young adults were asked to explain the apparent disunity…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior
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Furby, Lita – Human Development, 1979
Concepts about and evaluations of the unequal distribution of personal possessions were examined in Americans and Israelis of various ages ranging from kindergarten to 50-year-old adults. A number of developmental and cultural differences are discussed, and the general pattern of results is interpreted as reflecting different experiential…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Concept Formation
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Verstraeten, D. – Human Development, 1980
Investigates the degree of realism in the future time perspective of 113 Belgian adolescents ranging in age from 15 to 17 years. (SS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation
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Bovet, Magali C.; And Others – Human Development, 1982
Several experiments with 8- to 9-year-old children are reported to demonstrate that "decalage" observed between success in problems of conservation of weight, volume, and density is due to the different task situation as presented by Piaget and Inhelder. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes
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Reyes-Lagunes, Isabel; And Others – Human Development, 1979
Reports on the findings of a comparative study of mental abilities of Mexican and American children. Discusses age, sex, social class, and urban-rural differences, as well as cultural differences. (SS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies