Middle Adulthood: A Lifespan PerspectiveSherry L. Willis, Mike Martin SAGE Publications, 23 jun 2005 - 440 pagina's "This book is unique because of the focus on longitudinal studies and international perspectives . . . There is no other book like it . . . This book will be useful both as an advanced undergraduate or graduate course text and as a resource for scholars."
Middle Adulthood is designed for scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the field of adult development and aging. It is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying midlife development in the departments of Developmental Psychology, Human Development and Family Studies, Gerontology, Family Diversity, and Health. |
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... parent, and seeing social relationships with peers diminish. Simultaneously, this is the time period during which maturity and status offer the best opportunities “to reinvest emotions in other people, other pursuits and other life ...
... parents found to be similar in lifestyle or personality in old age were also alike in their young adulthood. They continued that this general statement needed further qualification, because there was much variation in the strength of ...
... parents. Current societal dynamics are putting intergenerational family relations squarely on the political and scientific agenda (cf. Kohli, 2004). Contemporary aging societies are age-graded and, to a large extent, 35 2 - The Midlife ...
... parents and adult children, and the problem of the so-called sandwich generation. We hope to provide some tangible evidence to help defuse the myth where it is unfounded, and to give it more substance where it is closer to reality. The ...
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Early Life Influences on Middle Age | 63 |
3 Genetic Influences on Midlife Functioning | 65 |
4 Personality in Young Adulthood and Functioning in Middle Age | 99 |
5 Impact of Past Transitions on WellBeing in Middle Age | 143 |
6 Cognitive Development in Midlife | 179 |
7 The Development of Physical and Mental Health From Late Midlife to Early Old Age | 209 |
9 SelfDevelopment at Midlife | 277 |
10 Middle Age and Identity in a Cultural and Lifespan Perspective | 319 |
11 Metacognition in Midlife | 355 |
Summary and Future Directions | 381 |
12 Midlife Development | 383 |
Author Index | 391 |
Subject Index | 407 |
8 Cognitive Trajectories in Midlife and Cognitive Functioning in Old Age | 243 |