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Peer reviewedGreenberger, Ellen; Sorensen, Aage B. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1974
Model outlines three dimensions of maturity likely to be relevant in all societies: (1) Capacity to function on one's own, (2) Capacity to interact with others, (3) Capacity to contribute to social cohesion. Nine attributes pertinent to these capacities are defined. Problems in the measurement of psychosocial maturity are discussed. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Educational Assessment, Individual Development, Maturation
Peer reviewedLawrence, Janet H.; Blackburn, Robert T. – Journal of Higher Education, 1988
Two studies on faculty aging--one using a psychological/developmental framework and the other a sociological/socialization model--are critiqued. A life-course perspective is introduced and the questions raised by the methodology are discussed. The contributions of the life-course framework are demonstrated. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Age, Aging in Academia, College Faculty, Faculty Publishing
Download full textCaffarella, Rosemary S. – 1992
Theories and models of adult development over the life span provide one of the foundational pieces for gaining a clearer understandings of learning in adulthood. Only recently have adult educators spoken more forcefully about the lack of integrated research on adult women. The purpose of this monograph is to describe those missing female voices as…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Developmental Stages, Females
Peer reviewedCaffarella, Rosemary S.; Olson, Sandra K. – Adult Education Quarterly, 1993
A literature review uncovered three themes on women's psychosocial development: diverse and nonlinear patterns, importance of intimacy and identity, and centrality of relationships and connectedness to others. The review assessed the applicability of existing developmental models to women and identified alternative designs and methods needed to…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Developmental Stages, Females
Smart, John C. – 1996
Academic departments exert a powerful influence on students by recruitment of distinctive personality types into academic disciplines, and by a socialization process in which departments reward students for the display of attitudes in accordance with the norms of their disciplines. This study examined the differential patterns of student growth…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Educational Environment, Higher Education
Greenberger, Ellen; Sorensen, Aage B. – 1971
The first in a series of related reports (see TM 000 775), this paper attempts to define a concept of psychosocial maturity which would be appropriate as a comprehensive educational goal. Biological, sociological, psychological and temporal formulations of maturity are discussed and compared. Am interdisciplinary model of maturity is evolved which…
Descriptors: Age, Biological Influences, Child Development, Developmental Psychology
