Vicissitudes of the impetus for growth and change among emerging adults

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 159-180

  Shulman, Shmuel ^a,b   Blatt, Sidney J ^b   Feldman, Benni ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

"Doing"; Emerging adults; Reflectivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHANGE THEORY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUTUROLOGY; GOAL ATTAINMENT; GROWTH; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS;

EID: 33745154101     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0736-9735.23.1.159     Document Type: Article

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