Paths to Successful Development: Personality in the Life Course

434 Pages·2002·2.44 MB·English

by  Lea Pulkkinen, Avshalom Caspi

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Paths to Successful Development
The influence of the life-span approach has been an important feature of
recent research in developmental psychology, as has a growing interest
in the relationship between personality and development. This impor-
tant new book, edited by two distinguished psychologists, explores the
relationship between personality and development from a life-course
perspective. The book presents current theoretical approaches and new
empirical findings from ongoing studies conducted by leading resear-
chers in North America and Europe. It is unique in focusing on suc-
cessful personality development, where developmental psychology in
the past seems to have focused almost entirely on problem behaviour
and risk of maladaption. The book has a multidisciplinary appeal and
will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of develop-
mental psychology, adult development and aging, and personality and
social psychology.
LEA PULKKINEN is Professor of Psychology at the University of
Jyva¨skya¨, Finland. She has published extensively on personality and
development including articles in the Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, the International Journal of Behavioral Development, the
Journal of Research in Personality, and the Journal of Adult Development.
AVSHALOM CASPI is Professor of Personality and Social Psychology
at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, England, and
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He is co-author of Sex
Differences in Antisocial Behaviour (Cambridge, 2001) and has published
extensively on personality development.
Paths to Successful
Development
Personality in the Life Course
Edited by
Lea Pulkkinen and Avshalom Caspi
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Contents
List of contributors ix
Personality and paths to successful development: an overview 1
LEA PULKKINEN AND AVSHALOM CASPI
Part I Temperament and emotion regulation
1 Temperament and socialization 19
MARY K. ROTHBART AND SAMUEL P. PUTNAM
2 The role of emotionality and regulation in children’s
social competence and adjustment 46
NANCY EISENBERG, RICHARD A. FABES, IVANNA K.
GUTHRIE AND MARK REISER
Part II Formation of social relationships
3 Attachment relationships and appraisal of partnership:
from early experience of sensitive support to later
relationship representation 73
KLAUS E. GROSSMANN, KARIN GROSSMANN,
MONIKA WINTER AND PETER ZIMMERMANN
4 How do adolescents select their friends?
A behavior-genetic perspective 106
RICHARD J. ROSE
Part III Continuity in individual life paths
5 Personality types in childhood and adolescence: main
effects and person-relationship transactions 129
MARCEL A. G. VAN AKEN, CORNELIS F. M.
VAN LIESHOUT, RON H. J. SCHOLTE AND
GERBERT J. T. HASELAGER
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6 The influence of early behavior patterns on later life 157
GLEN H. ELDER, JR. AND ROBERT CROSNOE
7 Studying processes: some methodological considerations 177
LARS R. BERGMAN
Part IV Environmental contributions to
personality development
8 The role of ethnic identity in personality development 203
BRETT LAURSEN AND VICKIE WILLIAMS
9 Time and change: psychosocial transitions in German
young adults 1991 and 1996 227
RAINER K. SILBEREISEN, MATTHIAS REITZLE AND
LINDA JUANG
Part V Life transitions
10 Developmental regulation of life-course transitions:
a control theory approach 257
JUTTA HECKHAUSEN
11 Social selection, social causation, and developmental
pathways: empirical strategies for better understanding
how individuals and environments are linked across
the life-course 281
AVSHALOM CASPI
12 Pathways through challenge: implications for
well-being and health 302
CAROL D. RYFF, BURTON H. SINGER AND
MARSHA MAILICK SELTZER
Part VI Personal goals and well-being
13 Individual differences in personal goals in mid-thirties 331
LEA PULKKINEN, JARI-ERIK NURMI AND KATJA KOKKO
14 Social production function (SPF) theory as an
heuristic for understanding developmental trajectories
and outcomes 353
JOHAN ORMEL
Contents vii
15 Searching for paths to successful development and aging:
integrating developmental and action-theoretical
perspectives 380
JOCHEN BRANDTSTA¨ DTER
Index 409