Individuals As Producers of their Development. A Life-Span Perspective

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
List of Contributors, Pages xiii-xiv
Foreword, Pages xv-xvii, ORVILLE G. BRIM JR.
Preface, Pages xix-xxi
Acknowledgments, Page xxiii
1 - Individuals as Producers of Their Development: Conceptual and Empirical Bases, Pages 1-36, RICHARD M. LERNER, NANCY A. BUSCH-ROSSNAGEL
2 - Evolutionary Aspects of the Activity of the Organism and Its Development, Pages 37-68, ETHEL TOBACH
3 - Figure, Ground, and Gestalt: The Cultural Context of the Active Individual, Pages 69-86, CHARLES M. SUPER, SARA HARKNESS
4 - Infants as Producers of Their Own Development: An Ecological Analysis, Pages 87-116, JAY BELSKY, WILLIAM J. TOLAN
5 - Individuals' Contributions to Their Own Development during Childhood: A Piagetian Perspective, Pages 117-153, LYNN S. LIBEN
6 - Adolescents and Young Adults as Producers of Their Development, Pages 155-182, NORMA HAAN
7 - Making It: The Dialectics of Middle Age, Pages 183-196, DEAN RODEHEAVER, NANCY DATAN
8 - Proactive and Reactive Aspects of Constructivism: Growth and Aging in Life-Span Perspective, Pages 197-230, GISELA LABOUVIE-VIEF
9 - The Role of Temperament in the Contributions of Individuals to Their Development, Pages 231-255, ALEXANDER THOMAS, STELLA CHESS
10 - The Physical Environment: Stimulation or Evocation, Pages 257-279, GRETA G. FEIN
11 - Where Is the Handicap in Disability?: The Contextual Impact of Physical Disability, Pages 281-312, NANCY A. BUSCH-ROSSNAGEL
12 - Life-Span Sex Roles: Development, Continuity, and Change, Pages 313-347, JUDITH WORELL
13 - A Body–Behavior Conceptualization of a Somatopsychological Problem: Race, Pages 349-387, RUSSELL T. JONES, JANELL I. HANEY
14 - The Role of Physical Attractiveness as a Contributor to Individual Development, Pages 389-446, GWENDOLYN T. SORELL, CAROL A. NOWAK
15 - Political Values, Conceptual Models, and Research, Pages 447-474, JOHN A. MEACHAM
Author Index, Pages 475-491
Subject Index, Pages 493-503