Self-directedness : cause and effects throughout the life course /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hillsdale, N.J. :
L. Erlbaum Associates,
1990
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword : the life course and the crisis in social science / Matilda White Riley
- Control by any other name : definitions, concepts and processes / Judith Rodin
- Individualism and the historical and social-structural determinants of people's concerns over self-directedness and efficacy / Carmi Schooler
- Individualism : social experience and cultural formulation / John W. Meyer
- Careers, career trajectories. and the self / David R. Hiese
- Schemas, sense of control, and aging / Ronald P. Abeles
- Social constraints on self-directedness over the life course / Anne Foner
- Development of control-related beliefs, goals, and styles in childhood and adolescence : a clinical perspective / John R. Weisz
- Control of environment and control of self / Morris Rosenberg
- What is intellectual efficacy over the life course? : using adults' conceptions to address the question / Cynthia A. Berg
- The role of adaptive processes in intellectual functioning among older adults / Gary W. Evans and Megan A. Lewis
- Self-perceptions of memory performance / Douglas J. Herrmann
- Control and health : an epidemiological perspective / S. Leonard Syme
- Control and the epidemiology of physical health : where do we go from here? / Sheldon Cohen
- Personal control and health promotion : a psychological perspective / Christopher Peterson
- Afterword / Carmi Schooler