This article reports on a study that examined the subset of qualitative cases in the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education where students experienced substantial self-authorship shifts over the first three college years (N = 30 students, 90 narratives). Engagement in experiences and roles demanding more sophisticated, internal meaning…

How leadership is done in higher education is analysed through a longitudinal interview study among the heads of department at a Swedish university. The focus is directed towards the construction and reconstruction of leader identity from the time when the heads were novices up until four years later when they were more experienced. The main…

A case study of one child, Alicia, is used to explore how children's identities as readers are constructed across time as they move thorough school. Attention to time helps us attend to how students draw on ongoing, familial, and historical resources in ways that are both recursive and future-oriented as they construct themselves as readers across…

Examines whether relationships can be demonstrated between specific infantile comfort habits and later personality development. Results suggest that children with a persistent oral habit at age 4 may later (at age 11 and 16) be less emotionally "well-adjusted" and more difficult for their parents to influence and control. (MP)

THIS WAS A LONGITUDINAL STUDY WHICH FOCUSED ON THE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 17 AND 22. IN THE FALL OF 1961, SELECTED STANFORD AND BERKELEY FRESHMEN WERE ADMINISTERED SIX SCALES FROM THE OMNIBUS PERSONALITY INVENTORY, THE AUTHORITARIAN AND ETHNOCENTRISM SCALES, AND AN EXPERIMENTAL 54-ITEM DRINKING ATTITUDES…