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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development
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Lifespan human development is the study of all aspects of biological, physical, cognitive, socioemotional, and contextual development from conception to the end of life. In approximately 800 signed articles by experts from a wide diversity of fields, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development explores all individual and situational factors related to human development across the lifespan.
Some of the broad thematic areas will include:
- Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
- Aging
- Behavioral and Developmental Disorders
- Cognitive Development
- Community and Culture
- Early and Middle Childhood
- Education through the Lifespan
- Genetics and Biology
- Gender and Sexuality
- Life Events
- Mental Health through the Lifespan
- Research Methods in Lifespan Development
- Speech and Language Across the Lifespan
- Theories and Models of Development.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Publisher Note
- About the Editor
- About the Associate Editors
- Contributors
- Introduction
- A
- Ability
- Academic Achievement
- Accidents
- Accommodation and Assimilation
- Acculturation
- Achievement
- Action
- Activities
- Activity Theory
- Adaptation
- Adaptive Functioning
- Addiction
- Adolescence
- Adolescent–Parent Relationships
- Adoption
- Adoption Design
- Adult Attachment
- Adult Capacity and Legal Guardianship
- Adult Children
- Adult Day Services
- Adult Development
- Advance Directive
- Adversity
- Advertising
- Aesthetics
- Affective Forecasting
- Age Discrimination
- Age-Irrelevant Society
- Ageism
- Agency
- Ages and Stages
- Aggression
- Aging
- Alcohol Use
- Alcohol Use Disorders
- Alcoholism
- Allergy
- Allostatic Load
- Altruism
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Analogical Reasoning
- Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
- Anemia
- Anger and Aggression
- Animism
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Antisocial/Conduct Disorder: Externalizing Behaviors
- Anxiety
- Appetite
- Aptitude
- Architecture
- Argument
- Art
- Asceticism
- Assessment and Testing
- Assisted Imitation
- Assisted Living
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Asthma
- Athletics
- Attachment
- Attention
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Attitudes
- Attraction, Interpersonal
- Attractiveness
- Attributions
- Authority
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Autobiographical Memory
- Autoimmune Disease
- Automaticity
- Autonomic Nervous System
- Autonomy-Supportive Parenting
- Awareness
- Awe
- B
- Beanpole Families
- Beauty
- Behavior Genetics
- Behavior Therapy
- Behavioral Inhibition (Shyness)
- Beliefs
- Bereavement
- Big Data
- Big Five Personality Traits
- Bilingual Education
- Bilingualism
- Binge Drinking
- Binge Eating Disorder
- Bioecological Model
- Biomedical Research
- Biometric Data
- Birth Order
- Birth, Biological Perspective
- Birth, Evolutionary Perspective
- Blindness
- Body Image
- Body Mass Index
- Brain
- Brain Development
- Bridge Employment
- Bulimia
- Bullying
- C
- Caloric Restriction
- Cancer
- Capacity Building
- Cardiac Psychology
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Career Choice
- Caregiver Stress
- Caregivers of Older Adults
- Case Study
- Categorization
- Causality
- Causation
- Census
- Centenarian
- Central Nervous System
- Character Strengths and Virtues
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- Child Care
- Child Maltreatment
- Chronic Illnesses
- Chronic Stressors
- Circadian Rhythms
- Civic Engagement
- Civic Socialization
- Classrooms
- Climate and Environment
- Cliques and Social Groups
- Close Relationships
- Closure and Grief
- Coaching
- Cognition
- Cognitive Atypicality
- Cognitive Development
- Cognitive Health
- Cognitive Schemas
- Cognitive Training and Cognitive Intervention
- Cohabitation
- Cohort
- College Education, Long-Term Benefits of
- College Education, Obtaining a
- Community
- Community Violence
- Comorbidity
- Compassion
- Competence Versus Performance
- Compression of Morbidity
- Computer Science
- Computers and the Internet
- Conflict-Affected Countries, Children and Adolescents in
- Conformity
- Connectome
- Conscience
- Consciousness
- Conservation
- Conservatism
- Consumption
- Contexts of Development
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities
- Continuity–Discontinuity Issue
- Convoy Model
- Cooperation
- Coparenting
- Coping
- Core Knowledge
- Corporal Punishment
- Correlational Study
- Cortisol
- Cosleeping
- Creativity
- Crime
- Crisis
- Critical Thinking
- Cross-Pollination in Cognitive Development
- Crowdsourcing
- Crying
- Cults
- Cultural Socialization
- Culture
- Cumulative Advantage and Risk
- Curriculum
- Cyberbullying
- D
- Dance
- Dating
- Deafness
- Death and Dying, Children’s Understanding of
- Death Rates, Leading Causes by Developmental Period
- Death with Dignity Acts
- Debriefing (Methods)
- Deception
- Decision-Making
- Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Pensions
- Delinquency
- Dementia/Major Neurocognitive Disorder
- Demographic Transition
- Demography
- Depression
- Development
- Developmental Assets and Developmental Relationships
- Developmental Cascades
- Developmental Continuity and Stability
- Developmental Continuity, Perceptions of
- Developmental Discontinuity and Instability
- Developmental Disturbances
- Developmental Milestones
- Developmental Niche
- Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
- Developmental Plasticity
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Developmental Science
- Developmental Tasks
- Developmental Theory
- Developmental Timetables
- Developmental Trajectories
- Diabetes
- Diary Methods
- Diathesis–Stress Model
- Diet
- Differential Treatment
- Difficult Children
- Digital Divide
- Disability
- Disasters, Civil and Natural
- Discipline
- Discriminating Sociability
- Discrimination
- Disease
- Disgust
- Dismissive-Avoidant Individuals
- Dissent
- Diverse Families
- Divorce
- Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Order
- Domestic Violence/Partner Violence
- Doubt
- Down Syndrome
- Dreaming
- Driving and Mobility in Late Life
- Dual-Earner Family
- Dyadic Data
- Dyadic Regulation
- Dynamic Systems Theory
- Dyslexia
- E
- Early Childcare
- Early Childhood Development
- Early Deprivation
- Early Intervention
- Eating Disorders
- Ecological Validity
- Ecology
- Educational Attainment
- Effortful Control
- Ego Development
- Egocentrism
- Elder Abuse
- Embodiment
- Emerging Adulthood
- Emotional Expression
- Emotional Intelligence
- Emotion-Focused Coping
- Emotion Regulation
- Emotions
- Emotion Socialization
- Empathy
- Empirical Evidence
- Employment
- Empty Nest
- End-of-Life Care
- Entrepreneurship
- Epidemiology
- Epigenetics
- Equifinality Versus Multifinality
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Eriksonian Theory
- Ethics
- Ethics in Research
- Ethnic–Racial Socialization
- Ethnicity
- Ethnographic Study
- Ethnotheories
- Ethology
- Evolution
- Evolutionary Theories of Aging
- Evolutionary Theory
- Executive Control
- Executive Functioning
- Exercise
- Experience-Dependent, Experience-Expectant Processes
- Experimental Research Methods
- Expertise
- Exposome
- Extracurricular Activities
- Eyewitness Testimony
- F
- Facial Expressions, Perception of
- Fairness
- Familism
- Family Chaos
- Family Contexts
- Family Life Cycle
- Family Rituals
- Family Synchrony
- Family Systems
- Fantasy–Reality Distinction
- Fathering
- Fear
- Fearful-Avoidant Individuals
- Feeding Disorders
- Fertility
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Fetal Origins Hypothesis
- Field Experiments
- Filial Anxiety
- Filial Piety
- Film
- Finances
- Flow
- Focus Groups
- Food Insecurity
- Forgiveness
- Foster Care
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Frailty
- Fraternal Twins
- Free Will
- Friendships
- Future Orientation (Time)
- G
- Gang Involvement
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Issues
- Gender
- Gender Development
- Gender Identity Development
- Gender Socialization
- Gene–Environment Correlations
- Gene–Environment Interplay
- Generativity
- Generosity
- Genetic Anomalies
- Genetics
- Genocide
- Genomics
- Geography
- Gerontology
- Gestures
- Giftedness
- Glass Ceiling
- Global Child and Maternal Health
- Global Developmental Science
- Goals
- God
- Good Death
- Goodness of Fit
- Government
- Grandchildren
- Grandparents
- Gratitude
- Grief
- Grit
- Growth Curve Modeling and Longitudinal Factor Analysis
- Guided Participation
- Guilt
- H
- Habit
- Habituation and Novelty Responsiveness
- Handedness
- Happiness
- Head Start
- Health (Attitude, Disparities, Promotion)
- Health and Development in the Context of Family Relationships/Family Stress
- Health Care
- Health Literacy
- Hearing
- Hemispheric Lateralization
- Heredity
- Heritability
- History
- HIV/AIDS
- Homelessness
- Homophily
- Honesty and Lying
- Hope
- Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Hormone Therapy
- Hormones
- Hospice Care
- Hostility
- Household Chaos
- Household Economics
- HPA Axis
- Human Rights
- Human Trafficking
- Humility
- Humor
- Hypertension
- Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal (HPA) Axis
- Hypothesis Testing
- I
- Identical Twins
- Identity Development
- Ideology
- Illness
- Imagination
- Imitation
- Immigration
- Immune System
- Immunization
- Impulsivity
- Incarceration
- Indirect Aggression
- Indiscriminate Social Responsiveness
- Individual Differences in Life-Span Development
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- Inequality
- Infancy
- Infectious Diseases
- Informal Labor Market
- Information Processing
- Informed Consent
- Inheritance
- Inhibition
- Initiative Versus Guilt
- Injury
- Insight
- Institutions/Orphanages
- Insurance
- Integrity and Despair
- Intellectual Disabilities
- Intelligence
- Intensive Longitudinal Methods
- Intentionality
- Interactions, Interpersonal
- Intergenerational Programs
- Intergenerational Relationships
- Intergenerational Transmission
- Internal Working Model
- International Child Welfare
- Internet
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Intersensory Perception
- Intersubjectivity
- Interventions
- Interviewing Children
- Intraindividual Variability Across the Life Span
- Intuition
- J
- Jealousy and Envy
- Joint Attention
- Joviality
- Justice
- K
- Kindness
- Kinship
- Knowledge
- L
- Language
- Late Versus Early Parenthood
- Law
- Leadership
- Learning
- Learning Disabilities
- Leisure
- Liberalism
- Life Events
- Life Expectancy
- Life Goals
- Life History Theory
- Life Narrative
- Life Review
- Life Satisfaction
- Life-Span Research Projects
- Lifestyles
- Literacy
- Living Will
- Logical Thinking
- Loneliness
- Longevity
- Longitudinal Versus Cross-Sectional Design, Analysis
- Love
- Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- M
- Magic
- Maltreatment
- Mandatory Retirement
- Marital Conflict
- Marital Relationships
- Marriage
- Mastery Across Adulthood
- Materialism
- Mathematical Thinking
- Mattering
- Maturation
- Maturing Out
- Measurement
- Media
- Medicaid
- Medical Decision-Making
- Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
- Medical Settings
- Medicare
- Meditation
- Memory
- Menopausal Hormone Therapy
- Menopause
- Mental Health
- Mental Illness
- Mentoring
- Meta-Analysis
- Metacognition
- Microbiome
- Microgenetic Analysis
- Middle Age/Midlife
- Migration
- Military Families
- Mindfulness
- Mind-Mindedness
- Mind-Set
- Minor Neurocognitive Disorder/Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Mirror Neurons
- Mixed-Method Study
- Molecular Genetics
- Money
- Mood Disorders
- Morality
- Mortality
- Motivation (Intrinsic, Extrinsic)
- Motivational Theory
- Motor Development
- Multigenerational Family
- Multilevel Modeling: Application for Life-Span Research
- Multimorbidity and Multiple Diseases
- Multiple Intelligences
- Multiple Partner Fertility
- Multiple Time Scale Design
- Museums
- Music
- Mysticism
- N
- Narcissism
- Naturalistic Methods
- Nature–Nurture
- Negotiation
- Neighborhoods
- Neural Connectivity
- Neurobiology of Affiliation
- Neurobiology of Mothering
- Neurocognitive Disorders
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neurogenesis
- Neuroimaging
- Newborn Assessment
- Nonverbal Communication
- Norms
- Nuclear Family
- Numeracy
- Nurse Home Visiting
- Nursing Homes and Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Nutrition
- O
- Obesity
- Observational Data
- Occupational Health
- Old Age
- Oldest Old
- Olfaction
- Online Communication
- Optimism
- Organization of Relationships: Messiness and Reparation
- Organizations
- Ostracism
- Ownership
- P
- Pain
- Palliative Care
- Panel Studies
- Paradox
- Parental Authority
- Parental Conditional Regard
- Parent–Child Conflict
- Parent–Child Interaction
- Parent–Child Synchrony
- Parenting
- Parenting by Lesbians and Gay Men: Outcomes for Children and Youth
- Parenting Style
- Participant Observation
- Passion
- Patienthood
- Peer Rejection
- Peers
- Peer Victimization
- Pension Plan
- Perception
- Perfectionism
- Personality
- Person-Oriented Psychology
- Perspective Taking
- Persuasion
- Pets
- Philanthropy
- Phobias
- Physical Activity
- Physical Appearance
- Physical Development and Growth
- Physical Disability
- Physical Environment
- Physical Health
- Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
- Piaget’s Theory
- Pivot Generation
- Planning Skills
- Plasticity
- Play
- Playfulness
- Pleasure
- Political Violence
- Politics
- Popularity
- Population Aging
- Positive Adaptations in Development
- Positive Youth Development
- Positivity Effect
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Posture
- Poverty
- Poverty and Brain Development
- Praise
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Anxiety and Stress
- Prejudice and Discrimination
- Prenatal Development
- Presbyopia and Diseases of the Eye in Late Life
- Pretense
- Preterm Birth
- Prevention Programs
- Pride
- Prison
- Problem-Solving
- Professional Ethics
- Programmed Theories of Aging
- Property
- Prosocial Behavior
- Prosocial Reasoning
- Prosociality
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Psychological Control
- Psychological Needs
- Psychosexual Stages of Development
- Psychosocial Development
- Psychosocial Moratorium
- Pubertal Timing
- Public Engagement
- Public Policy
- Public Programs for Children and Families
- Purpose
- Q
- Qualitative Methods
- Quasi-Experimental Methods
- Questionnaires
- R
- Racial and Ethnic Identity
- Randomized Controlled Trials
- Reading
- Reasoning
- Reciprocity
- Reflexes
- Refugees
- Regret
- Rejection Versus Acceptance
- Relational Developmental Systems
- Reliability
- Religion and Faith
- Remarriage
- Replication
- Representativeness
- Resilience
- Retirement
- Reward Sensitivity
- Risk and Protective Factors
- Risk-Taking
- Rites of Passage
- Ritual
- Role Taking
- Romantic Relationships
- S
- Sadness
- Sampling
- Sandwich Generation
- Scaffolding
- Schizophrenia
- School Dropout
- School Readiness
- School–Home Links
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
- Scientific Reasoning
- Scripts
- Secondary Data Analysis
- Secondary Sex Characteristics
- Second-Career Pattern
- Security
- Self
- Self-Actualization
- Self-Care
- Self-Deception
- Self-Efficacy
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Perceptions
- Self-Regulation
- Self-Report Assessments
- Self-Worth
- Senescence
- Sensation Seeking
- Sensitive Period
- Sensory Systems
- Sequential Designs
- Set Point
- Sex Differences
- Sexual Assault
- Sexual Attitudes
- Sexual Behavior
- Sexual Development
- Sexual Identity
- Sexual Reproduction
- Sexual Risk Behaviors
- Sexuality
- Sexuality Education
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Shame
- Shared and Nonshared Environment
- Siblings
- Sin
- Single Parenthood
- Skill Attainment and Loss
- Slavery
- Sleep
- Sleeper Effect
- Smell
- Smile
- Social Acceptance and Social Rejection
- Social and Emotional Behavior
- Social Anxiety
- Social Capital
- Social Categorization
- Social Cognition
- Social Cognitive Theory
- Social Competence
- Social Contagion
- Social Development
- Social Equity Theory
- Social Exclusion
- Social Groups
- Social Identity
- Social Inequality
- Social Information Processing
- Social Isolation
- Social Justice
- Social Learning Theory
- Social Networks
- Social Referencing
- Social Relationships
- Social Safety Net Programs
- Social Science
- Social Security
- Social Status
- Social Strife
- Social Support
- Social Understanding
- Social Withdrawal
- Socialization
- Socioeconomic Status
- Socioemotional Selectivity Theory
- Sociometric Techniques
- Solidarity Theory
- Specificity Principle
- Speech
- Spirituality
- Sports
- Standardized Tests
- Status Hierarchy
- Stepfamilies
- Stepfamilies and Blended Families
- Stereotype
- Stereotype Threat
- Stereotypes of Aging
- STIs
- Storytelling
- Stranger Wariness
- Street Life
- Stress
- Structural Equation Modeling
- Structured Observation
- Substance Use
- Successful Aging
- Suicidal Ideation and Behavior
- Suicide
- Supercentenarians
- Survey Research
- Survival Analysis
- Symbolic Representation
- Sympathy
- T
- Tanner Stages
- Taste
- Teachers
- Technology and Aging
- Technology Use
- Teen Parenthood
- Telehealth
- Television
- Telomere
- Temperament
- Temperament and Personality
- Teratogens
- Terminal Decline
- Terminal Drop
- Testosterone
- Theory of Mind
- Thinking
- Thriving
- Time
- Time Sampling
- Tolerance
- Touch
- Toys and Games
- Transactions
- Transition to Adulthood
- Transition to Parenthood
- Traumatic Stress
- Trust
- Trustworthiness
- Twin Studies
- Twins
- U
- Unions
- Universal Education
- Universals
- Urban and Rural Living
- V
- Validity
- Values
- Victimization
- Violence
- Vision
- Visual Disorders: Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Cataract
- Volunteerism
- Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory
- W
- War
- Well-Being
- Widow, Widower
- Wisdom
- Wishes
- Work/Family Conflict
- Index