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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Lifespan Development"”.
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Perceptions of Death among Older Adults: Integrating Terror Management Theory and the Lifespan Development Framework
… than younger individuals do. Guided by the lifespan development perspective, I investigated whether the range of life experiences and interpretation of them might account for perceptions of death in old age. A multi-phase content analysis of in-depth interview transcripts from 16 adults aged …
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Freedom to Be One's Self: Appalachian Women's Perspectives on Empowerment
… among a small group of Appalachian women and the developmental and cultural factors that they believe contribute to such empowerment. Twelve women completed in-depth interviews and questionnaires about their lifespan development with regard to cultural context and progression through Erikson's …
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A Lifespan Perspective on Proactive Socioemotional Behaviors and Work Attitudes and Performance
Lifespan development perspectives propose that people’s social interactions change with increasing age, such that there is a shift from knowledge-related social goals (social behaviors primarily for instrumental gain, such as networking for promotions, or eliciting supervisor feedback about job …
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Positive neurobiopsychosocial mechanisms of artscience and kinesthetic performance: Analysis of the ABCD data
… arts, and acculturation influenced neurodevelopment, as evinced by executive function and body mass index, among a group of preadolescents. The investigation was conducted based on the synthesis of findings from interdisciplinary neurobiopsychosocial research that helped establish the …
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The Critique of Regression
… is inextricably nested in the present field of lifespan development. What were formerly considered regressions are better described as shifts, or transformations, within the field. The pathologies of regression are best seen, not as the result of regressive arrest/fixation, but as adaptations to …
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Attachment, childhood adversity, emotional problems and personality disorder in offenders with mild intellectual disability
… Insecure attachment is evidenced as a developmental risk factor with regard to antisociality, in the mainstream population. However there is a dearth of evidence with regard to attachment and the development of antisociality in offenders with intellectual disability (ID). Differences …
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FORMATION, REFINEMENT, AND REORGANISATION OF COMPLEX BRAIN NETWORK TOPOLOGY ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
… of these connections form and changes across the lifespan. In Chapter 1, I provide theoretical background about the study of complex systems and the common properties observed across them – small-worldness, scale-free degree distributions and modularity. Diving deeper in brain networks …
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Caregiving in later life: an attachment explanatory model
… and subsequent personality and emotional development. Gerontologists have studied caregiving from an exchange, equity, and symbolic interactionist perspectives but in general, theory has been underutilized and underdeveloped. This study provides an alternative theoretical perspective. With …
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An interpretive phenomenological analysis of religious coping and relationship with god among older adults with functional impairments
… the framework of the motivational theory of lifespan development and the transactional theory of stress and coping. Participants' coping represented both primary and secondary control processes as well as problem-, emotion-, and meaning-focused coping. One's perception of God's will and God's …
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Catalysts and Triggers in Lifelong Learning
… context of lifelong learning from the historical development of adult education to present initiatives, while exploring the development of the geographic region this study is situated in to contextualise some of the wider influences that may impact upon individual learner’s reengagement. The …
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The Role Taijiquan in Supporting Adaptive Development in Adulthood
Purpose: Working from lifespan development theory and the theory of Selective Optimization with Compensation (SOC), I provide theoretical analyses to inform and direct research on Taijiquan where research questions involve issues of adaptive development (optimization of gains, maintenance of …