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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
The Interface of Adolescent and Parent Marital Expectation.
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Shulman, Shmuel; Rosenheim, Eliyahu; Knafo, Danielle – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1999
Investigates the extent to which adolescents' marital expectations are related to the marital expectations of their parents. Examines the extent to which the nature of attachment to the parent and the level of adolescent individuation moderate the carryover of marital expectations model from parents to children. Sex differences are discussed.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Expectation, Individual Development
Close Friendships in Early and Middle Adolescence: Typology and Friendship Reasoning.
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Shulman, Shmuel – New Directions for Child Development, 1993
Pairs of friends were identified in a sample of 147 seventh and 161 tenth graders. A problem-solving task completed by friends was used to identify friendship types, and individual students were interviewed about their views concerning friendship and their reaction to a friendship dilemma. Found age-related differences in types of friendship and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cooperation, Foreign Countries
The Second Individuation Process in Handicapped Adolescents.
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Shulman, Shmuel; Rubinroit, Carl I. – Journal of Adolescence, 1987
Considers Blos' conceptualization of adolescence as the stage when a second process of separation-individuation takes place. Notes various handicapping conditions may force adolescent to stay closer to family and hence interfere with adolescent's separation-individuation. Suggests that nature of interference will vary depending on whether the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Developmental Stages, Disabilities
Resolution of Disagreements between Romantic Partners, among Adolescents, and Young Adults: Qualitative Analysis of Interaction Discourses
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Tuval-Mashiach, Rivka; Shulman, Shmuel – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2006
The study was designed to explore qualitatively developmental differences in disagreement negotiation and resolution skills between adolescent and young adult romantic partners. Twenty adolescent and 20 young adult couples participated in the study. The Knox inventory was used to measure the level of disagreement between partners on ten domains…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Measures (Individuals), Qualitative Research
Adolescent Perception of Family Climate and Adaptation to Residential Schooling.
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Shulman, Shmuel; Prechter, Eti – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1989
Changes in adolescents' perceptions of the family as they adapt to residential schooling were studied for 51 residential and 57 nonresidential tenth graders in a school in Israel. No differences in the perception of family climate were found between the groups, suggesting no change with the individual's act of leaving. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Boarding Schools, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Fathers and Adolescents: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives. Adolescence and Society Series.
Shulman, Shmuel; Seiffge-Krenke, Inge – 1997
The family itself and men's roles within traditional nuclear families are changing; non-custodial fathers, stepfathers, and absent fathers are commonplace. This book examines the relationships of fathers to their adolescent sons, and daughters, in the context of a changing society. Chapter one explores both the historical and the changing role of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Rearing