Human development across lives and generations
Subtitle: the potential for change
By: edited by P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Kathleen Kiernan, Ruth J. Friedman.
Contributors: Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay.; Kiernan, Kathleen.; Friedman, Ruth J., 1970-
Series: The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence; The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence; Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Human capital; Career development; Family -- Economic aspects; Family -- Psychological aspects; Adulthood -- Psychological aspects; Developmental psychology; Social interaction; Quality of life; Generations; Change (Psychology)
Description: "The main purpose of our volume is to link and integrate the lessons learned from multiple disciplines about change and continuity in order to examine how our nations can improve life chances."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Based upon a preeminent international conference ... in Zurich, Switzerland in October 2001, entitled 'Well-being and dysfunction across the generations: change and continuity'"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Life-course development : the interplay of social-selection and social causation within and across generations; title: An overview of economic and social opportunities and disadvantage in European households; title: Parental, childhood, and early adult legacies in the emergence of adult social exclusion : evidence on what matters from a British cohort; title: Individual and parent-based intervention strategies for promoting human capital and positive behavior; title: Cohabitation and divorce across nations and generations; title: The intergenerational transmission of couple instability; title: Strengthening partnerships and families; title: Intergenerational continuities and discontinuities in psychological problems; title: Environmental influences on intellectual abilities in childhood : findings from a longitudinal adoption study; title: Intervention and policy as change agents for young children; title: Human development and the potential for change from the perspective of multiple disciplines : what have we learned?