Agency, Motivation, and the Life CourseLisa J. Crockett U of Nebraska Press, 1 ene 2002 - 201 páginas In what ways do individuals influence the course of their lives? How do people construct a unique life path within the opportunities and constraints afforded by their world? This volume examines how agency in the life course can be conceptualized and investigates the specific ways in which personal characteristics and contextual variables play a role in shaping individual lives. The contributors offer differing perspectives on agency, how its expression changes over a lifetime, and how it is constrained, channeled, or altered by cultural and social institutions. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of individual agency that can have a cumulative influence on an individual's life. Following an overview of the subject by Lisa J. Crockett, Jochen BrandtstÜdter and Klaus Rothermund provide a life-span model of agency focused on "intentional self-development" and goal accommodation. Ellen Skinner and Kathleen Edge discuss the development of coping, a potential underpinning of agency. In a concluding essay, Michael J. Shanahan and Glen H. Elder Jr. examine agency within a life-course framework, showing that the impact of individual agency on people's lives depends on the opportunities and constraints present during a particular historical era. |
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Concepts | 1 |
Ellen Skinner and Kathleen Parenting Motivation and | 77 |
Michael J Shanahan and History Agency and the Life | 145 |
Términos y frases comunes
action tendencies activities adaptive adolescent planfulness agency appraisals autonomy support Baltes Bandura behavior beliefs Brandtstädter capacity challenges Child Development children's coping Clausen cognitive concepts constraints coping episodes course Deci & Ryan Depression Development of Coping Developmental Psychology distress domain early adulthood effects Elder emotion environment Erlbaum example experience focus function goal pursuit Hillsdale NJ human development individual influence Intentional Self-Development interac involve Journal Kofta Learned helplessness life-span lives maladaptive meta-emotion midadolescence motivational model normative older cohort one's ontogenetic organized orientation outcomes parent coping parent reactions parent-child patterns perceived control personal development Personality and Social perspective planful competence predicted reflect relatedness relationship responses role Rothermund self-determination theory self-direction in early self-efficacy self-regulation self-regulatory self-system processes Shanahan shape situations Skinner Social cognition social contexts Social Psychology strategies stressors structure tasks Terman theory voluntary associations Wellborn York younger cohort