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Birth to maturity : a study in psychological development

Title: Birth to maturity : a study in psychological development / Jerome Kagan, Howard A. Moss ; with a new preface by Jerome Kagan.
Author: Kagan, Jerome
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1983.

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Additional Authors

Moss, Howard A.

Description

xxix, 299 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This relevant and influential book is the analysis of a longitudinal study of eighty-nine individuals who were assessed at birth and again at regular intervals; observational, psychometric, and interview data were collected for each child and his family until the child reached adolescence, and seventy-one of the subjects were reassessed when they became adults. The book emphasizes the relationship between early experiences and adult characteristics, and has remained throughout the years a forceful argument for and illustration of the continuity thesis.

Subject

Genre/Form

Longitudinal studies
Longitudinal researches (form)

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 287-292.

Contents

Methods of assessment -- The stability of behavior: passivity and dependency -- The stability of behavior: aggression -- The stability of behavior: achievement and recognition -- The stability of behavior: sexuality, social interaction, and selected behaviors -- Maternal practices and the child's behavior -- Sources of conflict and anxiety.

ISBN

0300029985
9780300029987
0300030290
9780300030297

LCCN

83150138

OCLC

ocm10099484
10099484
SCSB-627876

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library