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Title

The adaptive self : personal continuity and intentional self-development / edited by Werner Greve, Klaus Rothermund, Dirk Wentura.

Publication

Toronto : Hogrefe, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

• Greve, Werner, 1952-2011.
• Rothermund, Klaus.
• Wentura, Dirk.

Description

xvi, 368 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The concept of the "adaptive self" discussed in this book is a unifying framework for considering the nature of identity and the development of the self throughout the life-span. As the theoretical and empirical studies here show, this concept of self and identity is unique in including both intentional, regulated self-development and flexible responses to an unalterable environment within a single framework of self and identity." "Understanding human development necessitates a transdisciplinary approach, which is precisely what this book does. Leading figures from fields such as social, personality, developmental, and cognitive psychology have contributed both theoretical and empirically based chapters on the adaptive self."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Identity (Psychology)
• Self
• Identité (Psychologie)
• Moi (Psychologie)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the adaptive self : personal continuity and intentional self-development / Werner Greve, Klaus Rothermund and Dirk Wentura -- 1. Lifespan perspectives on self and personality : the dynamics between the mechanics and pragmatics of life / Ines Schindler and Ursula M. Staudinger -- 2. Youth as active agents in their own positive development : a development systems perspective / Richard M. Lerner, Christina Theokas and Helena Jelicic -- 3. Maintaining personality : the active and adaptive self as core of individuality and personhood / Werner Greve -- 4. The odds of prediction success / Alexander von Eye -- 5. Psychology of control and personality : Julian B. Rotter and beyond / Gunter Krampen -- 6. Engagement and disengagement across the life span : an analysis of two-process models of developmental regulation / Michael Poulin, Claudia Haase and Jutta Heckhausen -- 7. The role of self-efficacy in health self-regulation / Aleksandra Luszczynska and Ralf Schwarzer -- 8. The developing self in adolescence : producing and reducing discrepancies between developmental goals and present states / Martin Pinquart, Rainer K. Silbereisen and Margit Wiesner -- 9. Reactive and proactive motivational changes across adulthood / Helene H. Fung, Cara Rice and Laura L. Carstensen -- 10. The aging self : promoting gains and balancing losses : goal orientation in old age / Alexandra M. Freund and Natalie C. Ebner -- 11. The unknown self : the social cognition perspective / Dirk Wentura -- 12. Effects of age stereotypes on self-views and adaptation / Klaus Rothermund -- 13. Relationship-specific aspects of the self : the role of implicit relationship theories and their contribution to marital well-being / Eva Wunderer and Klaus A. Schneewind -- 14. Adaptation in close relationships : self-views and partner-views / Georg Felser -- 15. Universal accommodation? : cross-cultural notes on Brandstadter's coping theory / Clemens Tesch-Romer -- 16. Developmental counseling / Horst Graser -- 17. Autonomy, narrative identity, and their critics : a reply to some provocations of postmodern accounts in psychology / Jurgen Straub, Barbara Zielke and Hans Werbik.

ISBN

0889372764 (bound) :

OCLC

• ocm57207750
• SCSB-5184986

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries