The Adaptive Self

CONTENTS

Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Adaptation and Plasticity: Perspectives on Self-Development and the Development of the Self

Chapter 1 Lifespan Perspectives on Self and Personality: The Dynamics between the Mechanics and Pragmatics of Life

Chapter 2 Youth as Active Agents in Their Own Positive Development: A Developmental Systems Perspective

Chapter 3 Maintaining Personality: The Active and Adaptive Self as Core of Individuality and Personhood

Chapter 4 The Odds of Prediction Success

Part 2 Action Perspectives on Development: Control of Development and Development of Control

Chapter 5 Psychology of Control and Personality: Julian B. Rotter and Beyond

Chapter 6 Engagement and Disengagement Across the Life Span: An Analysis of Two-Process Models of Developmental Regulation

Chapter 7 The Role of Self-Efficacy in Health Self-Regulation

Part 3 Self-Regulation and Development: Adaptive Processes

Chapter 8 The Developing Self in Adolescence: Producing and Reducing Discrepancies between Developmental Goals and Present States

Chapter 9 Reactive and Proactive Motivational Changes Across Adulthood

Chapter 10 The Aging Self: Shifting from Promoting Gains to Balancing Losses

Chapter 11 THE UNKNOWN SELF: THE SOCIAL COGNITION PERSPECTIVE

Chapter 12 Effects of Age Stereotypes on Self-Views and Adaptation

Part 4 Development in Context: Interactional Perspectives on Development

Chapter 13 Relationship-specific aspects of the self: The role of implicit relationship theories and their contribution to marital well-being

Chapter 14 Adaptation in close relationships: Self views and partner views

Chapter 15 Universal Accommodation? Cross-Cultural Notes on Brandtstädter’s Developmental Theory of Action

Chapter 16 Developmental Counseling

Chapter 17 Autonomy, Narrative Identity and their Critics

Author Index

Subject Index