Becoming Men - The Development of Aspirations, Values, and Adaptational Styles

Here, Daniel A. Hart analyzes the results of an intensive twenty-year longitudinal study of men's development. Integrating a wide range of research approaches, Hart assesses personality trait, structural-developmental, and crisis-transformational factors in the study of lives followed over time. The author then develops an original framework for understanding the psychological similarities and differences in men's lives.

List of contents

1. The Study of Men's Lives.- 2. The Methods and the Men.- 3. The Development of the Ideal Self.- 4. The Development of the Ego-Ideal.- 5. Moral Judgment Development in the Context of the Family.- 6. Adaptational Styles.- 7. The Study in Perspective.- References.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel A Hart, Daniel A. Hart
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2009
• EAN: 9780306442742
• ISBN: 978-0-306-44274-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 517 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 220 p.
• Series: Perspectives in Developmental Psychology; Perspectives in Developmental Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine