The relationship of continuing personal growth and improved self-concept on the part of the teacher and effectiveness in teaching is discussed. (JD)

Considers adult educational needs according to the idea of developmental tasks along with changes in adult life cycles and calls for changes in adult education and legislation. (MF)

Career development responsibilities of managers are addressed by (1) drawing upon traditional theory to present points toward conducting a framework for understanding adult career development, (2) discussing changes in adult work lives, and (3) outlining basic stages of progress in career development--apprenticeship, journeyman, mentor, and senior…

The marital phenomenon known as the Seven Year Itch is discussed as a marital entity and as a manifestation of a stage of individual adult development-the age 30 transition. Characteristics of couples and treatment methods are discussed. Presented at the American Psychiatric Association, Miami Beach, May 9, 1976. (Author)

Offers perspectives on the role of extrinsic factors in the aging process, the long-term consequences of extrinsically initiated changes, and implications for gerontological research. Explains the distinction between usual and successful aging in light of physiologic and psychosocial characteristics. (ML)

Presented series of biographical passages to young and older adults to examine how semantic memory store of previously acquired knowledge affects ability to retain textual information. Older adults had difficulty in delayed, but not in immediate, recognition condition. Suggests that as older adults' episodic memory deteriorated, they could not…

Explored the relation between childhood sexual victimization experience and adult functioning. Victimized women differed from nonvictims on: (a) childhood family and social experiences; (b) adult attributional style; and (c) level of depression, psychological distress, self-esteem, and sexual problems. Suggests that the sexually victimized women's…

Reports details of an educational program designed and implemented at one retirement community. Cites a national survey which attests to the uniqueness of this program. Recommends that educational programs based on this model be implemented at all retirement communities. (Author/ABB)

Outlines major premises of contextual perspectives to adult intellectual development and describes what theorists hypothesize to be changes in environmental demands that occur during adulthood. Presents research suggesting that people's conceptions of intelligence at all points during development include social competence as a form of intellectual…

Life history interview tracked the movement of five middle-class women attending classes through a continuing education center for women. The center facilitated their movement through developmental stages but hampered their movement between stages, their abandonment of old social roles, and their construction of new roles. (BJV)

Sought to describe and categorize specific processes by which friends serve to influence emerging life structures of early adulthood. Five categories were developed from open-ended interviews of 34 young adults between 20 and 28 years of age. These categories describe friends in the roles of models, active agents for change, reactors, interactors,…

Examined four large surveys to establish the existence of passages. Results indicated that age groups and their associated passages can be identified. The passages appear to progress with time, but are not stable across cultures. Suggests that the generational event theory provides a better model for explanation. (JAC)

Review of a conference in Tanzania in June 1976, sponsored by the International Council on Adult Education, in which over 400 adult educators and development specialists representing close to 80 countries came together to elaborate a strategy for action by which the experiences, resources, and services of adult education could be placed in…

Adult development is defined as a continuing dialogue between culture and the individual. After adolescence, the challenges of work and love turn the dialogue into a serious struggle for adult identity. (Author)

Using census data from the nineteenth century and 1960, the authors compare the timing of five points in the life cycle in which the transition to adulthood is generally demarcated. Historical trends are discussed. (NS)