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Title Family systems and life-span development / edited by Kurt Kreppner, Richard M. Lerner
Published Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages) : illustrations
Contents Family systems and life-span development : issues and perspectives / Kurt Kreppner and Richard M. Lerner -- Individual development and the family system : a life-span perspective / Richard M. Lerner -- Linking infant development-in-context research to the investigation of life-span family development / Kurt Kreppner -- Family and peer systems : in search of the linkages / Ross D. Parke [and others] -- Family relationships and peer relationships in middle childhood : an exploratory study of the associations between children's integration into the social network of peers and family development / Lothar Krappmann -- The development of social and intellectual competence in Swedish preschoolers raised at home and in out-of-home care facilities / Carl- Philip Hwang, Michael E. Lamb, and Anders Bröberg
Nature and nurture in the family / Robert Plomin -- Reconciling the family systems and the relationships approaches to child development / Robert A. Hinde -- Family systems and family stress : a family life cycle perspective / David H. Olson and Yoav Lavee -- Contextual approaches to family systems research : the macro-micro puzzle / Klaus A. Schneewind -- Parent-daughter relationships in early adolescence : a developmental perspective / J. Brooks-Gunn and Marta Zahaykevich -- Family systems and family development : the selection of analytical units / Alexander von Eye and Kurt Kreppner -- Family systems throughout the life-span : interactive constellations of development, meaning, and behavior / Sally I. Powers
The significance of differences in siblings' experiences within the family / Judy Dunn and Clare Stocker -- Understanding adult social relationships / Toni C. Antonucci -- Long-term implications of fertility- related behavior and family formation on adolescent mothers and their children / J. Brooks-Gunn and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. -- The "generation in the middle" : perceptions of change in adults' intergenerational relationships / Leslie N. Richards, Vern L. Bengston, and Richard B. Miller -- Adolescents and their families / Yvonne Schütze -- Rediscovering the family in the past / Susan E. Harai and Maris A. Vinovskis
Summary This interdisciplinary volume presents international research and theories focusing on the development of the individual across the life span. Centering on ""family"" as the key context influencing, and being influenced by the developing person, the contributors to this volume discuss an array of theoretical models, methodological strategies, and substantive foci linking the study of individual development, the family system, and the broader context of human development. The volume presents continuing empirical research and theories in the realm of individual and family development and feature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Families -- Congresses
Life cycle, Human -- Congresses
Developmental psychology -- Congresses
Life change events.
Life cycle, Human -- Congresses
Nuclear families.
Families.
Family
Human Development
Interpersonal Relations
Life Change Events
Nuclear Family
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
Nuclear families
Life change events
Developmental psychology
Families
Life cycle, Human
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Kreppner, Kurt
Lerner, Richard M
ISBN 9781134737109
1134737106
9780203771280
0203771281