Promoting Gratitude and Positive Feelings About Learning Among Young AdultsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 25 - Trang 251-258 - 2018
John Mark Froiland
Universities are increasingly offering positive psychology courses; however, very few studies have been conducted to see if they enhance positive psychology outcomes for students. This study, conducted at a Western university in the U.S., examined the effects of a semester long positive psychology course on 26 undergraduate students’ gratitude and emotions toward studying. The course included broa...... hiện toàn bộ
Toward a New Theory of Established AdulthoodSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 30 - Trang 1-5 - 2023
Clare M. Mehta, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
In this introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Adult Development on Established Adulthood, we begin by providing a brief overview of the conceptualization of Established Adulthood. We then provide an overview of each paper included in the special issue, highlighting how this work contributes to the growing field of established adulthood by answering important questions and proposing n...... hiện toàn bộ
Distance, Contact, and Intergenerational Relationships: Grandparents and Adult Grandchildren from an International PerspectiveSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 33-41 - 2005
Alan C. Taylor, Mihaela Robila, Hae Seung Lee
In previous studies of intergenerational relationships, geographic distance has been considered the most obvious factor influencing opportunity for frequency of contact between grandparents and grandchildren. This study presents findings from a survey of 70 international college students in the Unites States regarding perceived grandparental influence and relationship satisfaction with their “clos...... hiện toàn bộ
Adolescents in Transition to Adulthood: Parental Support, Relationship Satisfaction, and Post-transition AdjustmentSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2008
Mary J. Levitt, Marcia E. Silver, Jennifer D. Santos
The transition from high school is a pivotal period for intergenerational relations, as the asymmetry characterizing pre-transition relations with parents is reconfigured. Changes in adolescent–parent relations across this transition have potentially important implications for post-transition adjustment. A prospective study was conducted with an ethnically diverse sample that included adolescents ...... hiện toàn bộ
Responses to the Demands of Everyday Life: Domain-Specific or General Coping?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 10 - Trang 189-201 - 2003
Uwe Sperling
This study focuses on how individuals deal with changes and problems in various domains of everyday life. A descriptive classification system is used to conceptualize various responses to stress. The findings support previous studies that suggest that a general adaptation system as well as domain-specific coping behaviors be used. This study concentrates on the indices of coping repertoire and cop...... hiện toàn bộ
Stage and Contextual Approaches to Development in Professional SupervisionSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 10 - Trang 127-134 - 2003
Sonja Žorga
This paper discusses supervision as a means of professional and personal development in adulthood and analyzes its relevant mechanisms and processes. By using several theoretical concepts of development the stage and contextual approaches to supervision are discussed. While the stage approach describes the movement of supervisee, supervisor, and supervision relationship along perceivable and predi...... hiện toàn bộ
Vincent van Gogh's early years as an artistSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 21-32 - 1996
Richard Brower
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) was an artist for 10 years, from 1880 to 1890. As a mature artist, he was capable of executing works in a rapid fashion, sometimes up to three a day and requiring less than an hour for each. But it took him 9 years of deliberate repetition to evolve the competencies with which to execute his works rapidly. This paper examines the first 2 years of his artistic developme...... hiện toàn bộ
Teacher Development: Contributions of Educational Biography and PersonalitySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 21 - Trang 216-224 - 2014
Margarida Pedroso de Lima, Piedade Vaz Rebelo, Carlos Barreira
The contribution of autobiographical narratives for the teacher’s personal and professional development is currently considered an important issue. “Our stories”, “the stories that we tell about our lives” constitute a fundamental path of human meaning making (Bruner in Acts of meaning. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990) and also, an identity construction process. “Fashioned out of memor...... hiện toàn bộ