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Author Abeles, R. P

Title Life-span Perspectives and Social Psychology
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVES; BASIC PREMISES OF LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVES; SOURCES OF CHANGE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT; AN OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTERS; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; REFERENCES; 1-IMPLICATIONS OF THE LIFE-SPAN APPROACH FOR RESEARCH ON ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION; A NARROW METHODOLOGICAL BASE; WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?; WEAK SELF-DEFINITION; UNCRYSTALLIZED ATTITUDES; UNINTEGRATED ATTITUDES; GROUP NORMS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT; STAGE-SPECIFIC ATTITUDES
EGOCENTRIC ATTRIBUTIONSCOGNITIVE PROCESSES AND RATIONALITY; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; 2-ATTRIBUTIONS AS DYNAMIC ELEMENTS IN A LIFE-SPAN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ATTRIBUTIONS IN THE 1980s AND 1990s; FOUR FOCI OF LIFE-SPAN ATTRIBUTION RESEARCH; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; 3-CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING: ISSUES OF ATTRIBUTION IN A LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE; OLDER PERSONS AS TARGETS IN ATTRIBUTION RESEARCH; OLDER PERSONS AS JUDGES IN ACHIEVEMENT ATTRIBUTIONS PRINCIPLES RELATED TO ATTRIBUTION AND AGING; PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ATTRIBUTION RESEARCH IN THE LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE
Conclusionreferences; 4-personal control through the life course; cross-sectional studies of control; longitudinal studies of control; differentiation of the construct of control; summary; acknowledgments; references; 5-the self in temporal perspective; narratives of the self; form and function in self-narrative; dramatic tension in narrative form; macro, micro, and multiples in narrative form; self-narratives across the life-span; summary; 6-social support and social networks: determinants, effects, and interactions; introduction; social support throughout the life course
Determinants and effects of social support: a model social supports of the elderly: a national studymeasures used in the analysis; research results; references; author index; subject index
Summary First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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Subject Developmental psychology -- Congresses
Social psychology -- Congresses
Developmental psychology
Social psychology
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317766674
1317766679