The Adaptive Self: Personal Continuity and Intenional Self-Development

The concept of the adaptive self discussed in this book is a unifying framework for considering the nature of identity and the development of the self throughout the life-span. As the theoretical and empirical studies here show, this concept of self and identity is unique in including both intentional, regulated self-development, and flexible responses to an unalterable environment within a single framework of self and identity. Understanding human development necessitates a transdisciplinary approach, which is precisely what this book does. Various figures from fields such as social, personality, developmental, and cognitive psychology have contributed both theoretical and empirically based chapters on the adaptive self, dealing with five main areas: Basic issues with respect to the self; The active self (problems and usefulness of the intentional self-development perspective); The adapting self (the developmental perspective, how stability and change are combined, how continuity is achieved through plasticity); The Interacting self (expanding the individual perspective to take a more systemic, superpersonal view); The aging self (how developmental and coping processes are int

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889372764
• ISBN13: 9780889372764
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Hogrefe & Huber Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages