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AGING VIEWED FROM A LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE

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Date Issued:
1976
Summary:
Developmental research has typically focused on one specific and rather narrowly defined age group. It is suggested that attention to a life-span perspective is increasing and that potentially such a perspective will integrate our concept of human development, especially in regard to the study of aging. Toward this end, the paper discusses paradigm differences in the definition of development and how these definitions have affected previous developmental studies. The developmental theories of Piaget, Mead, and Erikson are presented as a broad theoretical framework for life-span research. Methodological implications of a life-span perspective are considered.
Title: AGING VIEWED FROM A LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE.
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Name(s): TAYLOR, REBECCA CATHERINE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Britt, David, Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Sociology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1976
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 69 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Developmental research has typically focused on one specific and rather narrowly defined age group. It is suggested that attention to a life-span perspective is increasing and that potentially such a perspective will integrate our concept of human development, especially in regard to the study of aging. Toward this end, the paper discusses paradigm differences in the definition of development and how these definitions have affected previous developmental studies. The developmental theories of Piaget, Mead, and Erikson are presented as a broad theoretical framework for life-span research. Methodological implications of a life-span perspective are considered.
Identifier: 13816 (digitool), FADT13816 (IID), fau:10645 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.
Subject(s): Aging
Developmental psychology
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