Life-span Development and Behavior

TL;DR: The concept of "reproductive strategy" drawn from the field of behavioral ecology is applied to the study of childhood experience and interpersonal development in order to develop an evolutionary theory of socialization in terms of 2 divergent development pathways.

TL;DR: The results argue against a unidimensional understanding of parent involvement and support the view of the child as an active constructor of his or her school experience.

TL;DR: Decontextualized and noncontingent Big-Five content is highly useful for descriptions of individuals' density distributions as wholes, and amount of within-person variability in extraversion was shown to reflect individual differences in reactivity to extraversion-relevant situational cues.

TL;DR: Progress and issues in research that aims to understand variations in human adaptation to adverse experiences are highlighted, and developmental scientists are urged to engage in international efforts to promote resilience.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determined the prevalence of personality disorders in a group of elderly patients without an organic mental disorder and examined the relationship between the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and personality disorder symptoms in psychogeriatric clinical practice.

TL;DR: This report discusses the currently available model representing the CPs within the social network context of the PHI and proposes a new model ‘Communication World’ based on the analogy of the solar system, which may help overcome some of the problems identified.

TL;DR: The process of undertaking a longitudinal multiple methods study with older women experiencing the transition of later-life widowhood and the results demonstrate the diverse and often paradoxical nature of social relationships within similar networks.