Development as Action in Context

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Development as Action in Context

      • R. K. Silbereisen, K. Eyferth

      Pages 3-16

3. Approaches to Managing Life-Tasks in Adolescence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Problem Identification and Definition as Important Aspects of Adolescents’ Coping with Normative Life-Tasks

      • F. Dittmann-Kohli

      Pages 19-37

   3. Puzzles in the Study of Daily Hassles

      • R. S. Lazarus

      Pages 39-53

   4. Social Behavior Problems in Adolescence

      • M. Argyle

      Pages 55-86

   5. Place for Development: Adolescents, Leisure Settings, and Developmental Tasks

      • R. K. Silbereisen, P. Noack, K. Eyferth

      Pages 87-107

   6. Children’s and Adolescents’ Conceptions of Adulthood: The Changing View of a Crucial Developmental Task

      • E. Dreher, R. Oerter

      Pages 109-120

   7. Future Time Orientation and Its Relevance for Development as Action

      • G. Trommsdorff

      Pages 121-136

   8. Prosocial Motives from 12 to 18: A Comparison of Adolescents from Berlin (West) and Warsaw

      • R. K. Silbereisen, K. Boehnke, J. Reykowski

      Pages 137-164

4. Development and Problem Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Resourceful and Vulnerable Children: Family Influence in Hard Times

      • G. H. Elder Jr., A. Caspi, T. van Nguyen

      Pages 167-186

   3. Adolescents’ Changing Values in a Changing Society

      • K. R. Allerbeck, W. J. Hoag

      Pages 187-201

   4. Processes of Peer Influences in Adolescence

      • D. B. Kandel

      Pages 203-227

   5. The Coping Function of Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Use

      • E. W. Labouvie

      Pages 229-240

   6. Adolescent Problem Drinking: Psychosocial Aspects and Developmental Outcomes

      • R. Jessor

      Pages 241-264

   7. Structural Modeling with Large Data Sets and Non-Normal Continuous Variables

      • P. M. Bentler

      Pages 265-284

5. Prospects

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Recent Advances in Research on the Ecology of Human Development

      • U. Bronfenbrenner

      Pages 287-309

Most contributions to this volume originated as papers given at an inter­ national conference on Integrative Perspectives on Youth Development held in Berlin (West) in May, 1983. This conference was part of a 6-year longi­ tudinal research program on the causes of substance use among adolescents in Berlin, which is now in its fourth year. The conference title deliberately did not refer to substance use. However, its relevance to an explanation of drug-related problem behavior was made evident to everyone invited to the conference. The search for integrative perspectives in youth development originated in a dilemma that became obvious during the planning of intensive research on concomitants of substance use. In the methodology for research on youth development, there were two lines of thought that seemed completely unre­ lated to each other: One line of thought was oriented toward the person, leaving situational aspects aside, while the other concentrated on ecological or situational determinants and thus neglected the aspects of development and internal processes. The integration of both these directions seemed to be an unusually promising approach for any project that aimed to understand changes in the individual within a rapidly changing urban setting. The best way to come closer to a resolution of that dilemma seemed to be an intensive exchange between the American and European scientific communities on this issue.

• Action
• Europe
• Person
• alcohol
• behavior
• coping
• development
• integration
• methodology
• planning
• research
• youth

• Department of Psychology, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin 10, West Germany

  Rainer K. Silbereisen, Klaus Eyferth

• Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Georg Rudinger

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