Challenges to Developmental Regulation across the Life Course: What Are They and Which Individual Differences Matter?

Autor/inn/en	Heckhausen, Jutta; Wrosch, Carsten
Titel	Challenges to Developmental Regulation across the Life Course: What Are They and Which Individual Differences Matter?
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 40 (2016) 2, S.145-150 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025415588796
Schlagwörter	Individual Differences; Self Control; Positive Attitudes; Goal Orientation; Self Motivation; Adjustment (to Environment); Individual Development; Developmental Stages; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individueller Unterschied; Selbstbeherrschung; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Individuelle Entwicklung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	We discuss the major processes involved in individuals' motivation and self-regulation of goal striving throughout the life course. While much is regulated based on the biological and societal scaffolding of lifespan development, certain challenges for motivation and self-regulation are more substantial and need to be managed by the individual, providing opportunities for researchers for testing the limits of individual capacities in developmental regulation. These challenging circumstances include major changes in age-graded opportunities for goal pursuit, uncertain or obfuscated opportunities, and major unexpected losses of control. Under such challenging circumstances, the consequences of individual differences in motivational self-regulation, such as optimism, action vs. state orientation, and goal-disengagement capacity are enhanced and may contribute to adaptive patterns of developmental regulation. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01