Encyclopedia of adult development
By: edited by Robert Kastenbaum.
Contributors: Kastenbaum, Robert.
Publisher: Oryx Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Phoenix, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
Subjects: Adulthood -- Psychological aspects -- Encyclopedias; Developmental psychology -- Encyclopedias
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Adult children and their parents -- Adult development and aging, models of -- African-American experiences through the adult years -- Age and mate choice -- Age 21 -- Age 40 -- Age 65 -- Alcohol use and abuse -- Attachment across the lifespan -- Body senses -- Cardiac health -- Career age -- Caregiving  -- Centenarians -- Chronic pain as a lifespan problem -- Cohort and generational effects -- Communication -- Conflict as a challenge in adult development -- Contextualism -- Control and vulnerability -- Creativity -- Criminal behavior -- Depression -- Development and aging -- Development and aging in historical perspective -- Disengagement theory -- Divorce -- Driving : a lifespan challenge -- Drug use and abuse -- Exercise -- Expressive arts -- Fairy tales as commentary on adult development and aging -- Fictive kin -- Friendships through the adult years -- Gender as a shaping force in adult development and aging -- Gender differences in the workplace -- Generational equity -- Grandparent communication skills -- Grandparent education to enhance family strength -- Habituation : a key to lifespan development and aging? -- Happiness, cohort measures of -- Health education and adult development -- Homosexuality -- Housing as a factor in adult life -- Humor -- Individuality -- Information processing -- Intelligence -- Intelligence :  crystallized and fluid -- Interethnic relationships -- Japanese perspectives on adult development -- Language development -- Learning and memory in everyday life -- Life events -- Listening -- Loneliness -- Longevity -- Loving and losing --; title: Marital development -- Mastery types, development, and aging -- Maturity -- Memory -- Menopause -- Mental health in the adult years -- Mental health resources for adults -- Metaphors of the life course -- Mexican Americans : life course transitions and adjustment -- Mid-life crisis -- Military service : long-term effects on adult development -- Narcissism -- Native American perspectives on the lifespan -- Parental imperative -- Place and personality in adult development -- Political beliefs and activities -- Possessions -- Premature aging -- Privacy issues -- Religion and coping with crisis -- Religion in adult life -- Reminiscence and life review -- Retirement : an emerging challenge for women -- Retirement preparation -- Risk to life through the adult years -- Rural living : what influence on adult development? -- Sex in the later adult years -- Sexuality -- Sibling relationships -- Sleep and dreams -- Slowing of behavior with age -- Social class and adult development -- Social relationships, convoys of -- Social support for the chronically ill -- Spiritual development and wisdom : a vedantic perspective -- Stress -- Subcultural influences on lifelong development -- Suffering -- Suicide -- Taste and smell -- Travel : stimulus to adult development -- Trust as a challenge in adult development -- Twins through the lifespan -- Vision -- The voice -- Widowhood : the coping response -- Work capacity across the adult years -- Work organization membership and behavior.