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Developmental tasks and education
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The article was published on 1943-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2320 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Differential psychology & Developmental psychobiology.read more
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The Construct of Resilience: A Critical Evaluation and Guidelines for Future Work
TL;DR: A critical appraisal of resilience, a construct connoting the maintenance of positive adaptation by individuals despite experiences of significant adversity, concludes that work on resilience possesses substantial potential for augmenting the understanding of processes affecting at-risk individuals.
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The development of competence in favorable and unfavorable environments. Lessons from research on successful children
TL;DR: Signals are drawn from studies of naturally occurring resilience among children at risk because of disadvantage or trauma and also from efforts to deliberately alter the course of competence through early childhood education and preventive interventions.
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Theoretical propositions of life-span developmental psychology : On the dynamics between growth and decline
TL;DR: In this article, a family of theoretical perspectives associated with this metatheoretical view of life-span developmental psychology includes the recognition of multidirectionality in ontogenetic change, consideration of both age-connected and disconnected developmental factors, a focus on the dynamic and continuous interplay between growth (gain) and decline (loss), emphasis on historical embeddedness and other structural contextual factors, and the study of the range of plasticity in development.
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Influences of socioeconomic status, social network, and competence on subjective well-being in later life : A meta-analysis
Martin Pinquart,Silvia Sörensen +1 more
TL;DR: Meta-analysis is used to synthesize findings from 286 empirical studies on the association of socioeconomic status (SES), social network, and competence with subjective well-being (SWB) in the elderly, finding that all three aspects of life circumstances are positively associated with SWB.