Adjustment and Growth: Two Trajectories of Positive Personality Development across Adulthood

Handbook of Research on Adult Learning and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 241-268

  Staudinger, Ursula M ^a   Kessler, Eva Marie ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203887882-12     Document Type: Chapter

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