Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Tables and Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Selectivity and Failure Compensation as Fundamental Requirements of Human Behavior and Development
- 2 The Life Course as a Context of Action
- 3 Primary and Secondary Control across the Life Span
- 4 A Model of Developmental Regulation across the Life Span
- 5 Developmental Goals as Organizers of Developmental Regulation
- 6 Developmental Regulation in Different Life-Course Ecologies
- 7 Social Comparisons as Prototypical Strategies in Developmental Regulation
- 8 Conclusions and Prospects for Future Research
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Tables and Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Selectivity and Failure Compensation as Fundamental Requirements of Human Behavior and Development
- 2 The Life Course as a Context of Action
- 3 Primary and Secondary Control across the Life Span
- 4 A Model of Developmental Regulation across the Life Span
- 5 Developmental Goals as Organizers of Developmental Regulation
- 6 Developmental Regulation in Different Life-Course Ecologies
- 7 Social Comparisons as Prototypical Strategies in Developmental Regulation
- 8 Conclusions and Prospects for Future Research
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Summary
In this introductory section the conceptual rationale and structure of this book is laid out. First, it seems important to mention that the sequential structure of chapters follows a conceptual logic rather than the chronology of events. Some of the empirical work was conducted before or concurrently with the development of the life-span theory of control (J. Heckhausen & Schulz 1995) and its specification for phenomena of developmental regulation (J. Heckhausen & Schulz 1993a; Schulz & J. Heckhausen 1996). This means that the nine empirical studies presented in Chapters 2, 6, and 7 do not represent empirical tests of the theory in a strict sense. Instead, they serve to illustrate the usefulness and scope of the theory and provide the groundwork for future research. In my report of significant empirical results, I have made an effort to convey the gist of the findings rather than burden the reader with technical and statistical details. Readers interested in a more detailed account of specific studies are referred to the relevant journal publications (see References).
This book is about developmental regulation in adulthood. The regulation of development in the human life course is anything but a trivial matter. The human species is endowed with extensive behavioral flexibility and immense ontogenetic potential.
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- Developmental Regulation in AdulthoodAge-Normative and Sociostructural Constraints as Adaptive Challenges, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998
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