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Social and Personality Development: An Advanced Textbook
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Lamb, Michael E., Ed.; Bornstein, Marc H., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This new text contains parts of Bornstein and Lamb's "Developmental Science, 6th edition", along with new introductory material, providing a cutting edge and comprehensive overview of social and personality development. Each of the world-renowned contributors masterfully introduces the history and systems, methodologies, and measurement and…
Descriptors: Personality Development, Discussion, Parent Role, Personality
The Uses of Longitudinal Data and Person-Centered Analyses in the Study of Cognitive and Language Development
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Hoff, Erika – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
Researchers in the fields of cognitive and language development have made less use of large-scale longitudinal designs and of person-centered approaches to data analysis than have researchers in the fields of social and personality development. It is argued that differences among domains of developmental psychology in the research methods employed…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Personality, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology
Understanding Executive Performance: A Life-Story Perspective. An Exploration of the Foundations of Leadership in Terms of Personal Identity.
Palus, Charles J.; And Others – 1991
The major contention of this paper is that the best way to understand an individual's identity is through the story (or stories) that person makes of his or her life. The research looks at the ways in which the performance of business executives is rooted in both: (1) an executive's unique identity as an individual; and (2) a component of…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Psychology, Leadership, Leadership Qualities
The Meaning of Autonomy in Psychological Theory.
Davidson, Philip M. – 1991
The concept of autonomous identity, derived from Piaget's theory of personality, is distinguished from other applications of the term "autonomy" in psychological theory. Introductory comments suggest that both biological and mental development express autonomy in the same two senses: as self-regulating and progressively self-liberating.…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Moral Development
The Expansive Executive. Report Number 147. Second Edition.
Kaplan, Robert E. – 1991
This report seeks to understand executive leadership by focusing on a character type called "expansive." Expansive character revolves around mastery of tasks and a continual desire to accomplish. In the report, several goals are featured: to define what expansive character is; to discuss its origins; to show how moderate versus extreme…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Psychology, Industrial Psychology, Leadership
Career Development: Designing Self.
Peatling, John H.; Tiedeman, David V. – 1977
Based on the following premise the authors propose a process for the construction of human personality: Each man and woman is a researcher; therefore education is a relationship between a person and the environment which allows a person to master what he or she investigates, and in the course of such investigation a person engages in the process…
Descriptors: Analog Computers, Career Development, Computer Oriented Programs, Developmental Psychology