Development as Action in Context Problem Behavior and Normal Youth Development

Most contributions to this volume originated as papers given at an inter­ national conference on Integrative Perspectives on Youth Development held in Berlin (West) in May, 1983. This conference was part of a 6-year longi­ tudinal research program on the causes of substance use among adolescents in...

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Other Authors: Silbereisen, Rainer K. (Editor), Eyferth, Klaus (Editor), Rudinger, Georg (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1986, 1986
Edition:1st ed. 1986
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • A. Introduction
  • I. Development as Action in Context
  • B. Approaches to Managing Life-Tasks in Adolescence
  • II. Problem Identification and Definition as Important Aspects of Adolescents’ Coping with Normative Life-Tasks
  • III. Puzzles in the Study of Daily Hassles
  • IV. Social Behavior Problems in Adolescence
  • V. Place for Development: Adolescents, Leisure Settings, and Developmental Tasks
  • VI. Children’s and Adolescents’ Conceptions of Adulthood: The Changing View of a Crucial Developmental Task
  • VII. Future Time Orientation and Its Relevance for Development as Action
  • VIII. Prosocial Motives from 12 to 18: A Comparison of Adolescents from Berlin (West) and Warsaw
  • C. Development and Problem Behavior
  • IX. Resourceful and Vulnerable Children: Family Influence in Hard Times
  • X. Adolescents’ Changing Values in a Changing Society
  • XI. Processes of Peer Influences in Adolescence
  • XII. The Coping Function of Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Use
  • XIII. Adolescent Problem Drinking: Psychosocial Aspects and Developmental Outcomes
  • XIV. Structural Modeling with Large Data Sets and Non-Normal Continuous Variables
  • D. Prospects
  • XV. Recent Advances in Research on the Ecology of Human Development
  • Author Index