PSYCHOLOGYWe define psychological resilience as the capacity to maintain, or regain, psychological well-being in the face of challenge. Elaborating on this definition, multiple dimensions of well-being are deli
According to the psychosocial theory of personality development, later adulthood is characterised by the need to practice generativity and make meaning of one’s life in order to achieve integrity and maturity (Erikson, 1959/1980). Meaning in life is a fundamental topic in positive psychology as ...
Our analyses also suggest that it is mostly those in their 60s and 70s who were more likely to be in the “increasing” loneliness group – this chimes with recent findings from a coordinated analysis of nine longitudinal ageing studies that found an increase in loneliness in older adulthood (...
The team discovered that people who have these first sexual experiences earlier are more likely to have better sexual functioning later in adulthood, and those who delay these experiences are more likely to face sexual difficulties down the road. Peragine, along with fellow U of T researchers Malv...
Previous research has shown that many adolescents with high career aspirations obtain higher educational qualifications as well as jobs with higher occupational prestige and wage attainments later in adulthood compared to those with low aspirations (Mello, 2008; Schoon, Martin, & Ross, 2007; Schoon ...
We use longitudinal data of a representative sample ofN = 1,675 adolescents from the Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to AdulthoodFootnote4(z-proso; Ribeaud et al.,2022). Caregivers gave informed consent for the first four waves and passive consent thereafter until age...
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Children were participants in the LSAC, which recruited a nationally-representative sample of 2 cohorts of Australian children (Birth and Kindergarten cohorts) to investigate the social, environmental, and economic impacts on their development and well-being from infancy through to adulthood (Sanson et...