Is it adaptive to disengage from demands of social change? Adjustment to developmental barriers in opportunity-deprived regions

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 384-398

  Tomasik, Martin J ^a   Silbereisen, Rainer K ^a   Heckhausen, Jutta ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Developmental regulation; Disengagement; Globalization; Life span theory of control; Opportunity structures; Primary and secondary control; Social change; Social ecology; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649681028     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-010-9177-6     Document Type: Article

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