tailieunhanh - HANDBOOK OF LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT

The science of human development seeks to understand how individuals change on physical, cognitive, and social dimensions of functioning across the life span. Although many informative developmental studies have relied on cross-sectional comparisons among individuals of different ages, optimal designs for addressing developmental questions must involve the study of intraindividual change across time. Often, the time frame in developmental studies spans years and may be indexed with reference to particular events, such as one’s birth, entrance to a particular grade in school, and the onset of puberty, menopause, or retirement. There is also growing interest in the study of short-term change and variability observed across moments or days as. | Handbook of _ LIFE-SPAN _ DEVELOPMENT KAREN L. Fingerman Cynthia a. berg Jacqui Smith Toni c. ANTONUCCI EDITORS HANDBOOK OF LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT Karen L. Fingerman PhD is the Berner Hanley Professor of Developmental and Family Studies at Purdue University. She is also Director of Purdue s Adult Family Research Center. She has conducted research and published numerous scholarly articles on positive and negative emotions in social relationships. Her current research focuses on middle-aged adults relationships with their grown children and their aging parents. She was the 1998 recipient of the Springer Award for Early Career Achievement from APA s Division 20 Adult Development and Aging and the 1999 recipient of the Margaret Baltes Award for Early Career Achievement in Social and Behavioral Gerontology from the Gerontological Society of America. Cynthia A. Berg PhD is Professor of Psychology at the University of Utah. Her research takes a life-span approach to the examination of how individuals collaborate in close relationships . parent-child married couples to solve everyday problems especially those surrounding chronic illness adolescent diabetes prostate cancer . She is on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Family Psychology Journal of Gerontology and Psychology and Aging. She received the Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Distinguished Mentor Award from the University of Utah in 2006 and the 2007 Master Mentor Award from APA s Division 20. Her research has been funded by NICHD NIA and NIDDK. Jacqui Smith PhD is Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She is also a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research where she heads a research group on psychosocial and cognitive aging and is Co-PI of the NIH-funded Health and Retirement Study HRS . She currently directs NIH-funded studies of experienced well-being and health in midlife and old age. Before moving to Michigan she was a Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck .