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ERIC Number: EJ387696
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Personal Self-Regulation of Development: Cross-Sequential Analyses of Development-Related Control Beliefs and Emotions.
Brandtstadter, Jochen
Developmental Psychology, v25 n1 p96-108 Jan 1989
Findings highlight the importance of development-related control efforts and beliefs for achieving a subjectively favorable balance of developmental gains and losses and for maintaining an optimistic perspective in middle and later adulthood. Results are discussed with reference to a theoretical model of development-related control activities. (RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Beliefs, Correlation, Cross Sectional Studies, Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Longitudinal Studies, Personal Autonomy
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Optimism; West Germany