Focused on stress events as possible antcedents of stability and change in adulthood. Results indicated emotions and symptoms of women were more affected by exposure to stress, men changed more as a function of time than stress, and psychological characteristics of both sexes predispose them to stress. (Author)

A partial sequential design was used to study personality development over a 10-year-period. Data on the Inventory of Psychosocial Development were collected from: a sample of college students in 1966; the same sample as alumni in 1976; and a sample of undergraduates in 1976. (JMB)

Until recently marriages that endured 20 years or more have been considered long-term. And only in recent years have marriages of 50 or more years duration been plentiful enough to be studied. The course of marital satisfaction across the years was traced in the 17 surviving couples of the Berkeley Older Generation Study, a group that has been…

Only a longitudinal study, in which retrospective reports can be verified against data collected earlier, can determine what topics tend to be reported accurately and whether certain types of individuals are more likely to be accurate reporters. A representative group of adults (N=60) who became parents 50 years ago are now part of the oldest and…

Data from the longitudinal study Monitoring the Future indicate that individuals' work values change substantially from late adolescence through young adulthood, with "average trajectories" of work values suggesting growing realism with age. Work value trajectories were systematically tied to social origin and early experience, with…

Examines changes in attitude toward traditional morality accompanying the change from adolescence to adulthood. Finds that while the transition to adulthood involved changes in attitude, these shifts were not consistent in nature. (FMW)