Development as Action in Context: Problem Behavior and Normal Youth Development - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3662024764 ISBN 13: 9783662024768

Publisher: Springer, 2014

Synopsis

A. Introduction.- I. Development as Action in Context.- B. Approaches to Managing Life-Tasks in Adolescence.- II. Problem Identification and Definition as Important Aspects of Adolescents' Coping with Normative Life-Tasks.- III. Puzzles in the Study of Daily Hassles.- IV. Social Behavior Problems in Adolescence.- V. Place for Development: Adolescents, Leisure Settings, and Developmental Tasks.- VI. Children's and Adolescents' Conceptions of Adulthood: The Changing View of a Crucial Developmental Task.- VII. Future Time Orientation and Its Relevance for Development as Action.- VIII. Prosocial Motives from 12 to 18: A Comparison of Adolescents from Berlin (West) and Warsaw.- C. Development and Problem Behavior.- IX. Resourceful and Vulnerable Children: Family Influence in Hard Times.- X. Adolescents' Changing Values in a Changing Society.- XI. Processes of Peer Influences in Adolescence.- XII. The Coping Function of Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Use.- XIII. Adolescent Problem Drinking: Psychosocial Aspects and Developmental Outcomes.- XIV. Structural Modeling with Large Data Sets and Non-Normal Continuous Variables.- D. Prospects.- XV. Recent Advances in Research on the Ecology of Human Development.- Author Index.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3662024764
• ISBN 13: 9783662024768
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Silbereisen Rainer K., Eyferth Klaus, Rudinger Georg