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Social friendships are important to emotional fulfillment, behavioral adjustment, and cognitive function. [152] Research has shown that emotional closeness in relationships greatly increases with age even though the number of social relationships and the development of new relationships begin to decline. [153]
The constructive developmental framework (CDF) is a theoretical framework for epistemological and psychological assessment of adults. The framework is based on empirical developmental research showing that an individual's perception of reality is an actively constructed "world of their own", unique to them and which they continue to develop over their lifespan.
Social emotional development represents a specific domain of child development. It is a gradual, integrative process through which children acquire the capacity to understand, experience, express, and manage emotions and to develop meaningful relationships with others. [ 1 ]
A study published in Emotion found that middle-aged adults (40-64) were more likely to use “proactive emotion-regulation strategies” than younger or older adults, which means they think about ...
This field examines change [2] across three major dimensions, which are physical development, cognitive development, and social emotional development. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Within these three dimensions are a broad range of topics including motor skills , executive functions , moral understanding , language acquisition , social change , personality ...
Given the right conditions—and Erikson believes these are essentially having enough space and time, a psychosocial moratorium, when a person can freely experiment and explore—what may emerge is a firm sense of identity, an emotional and deep awareness of who they are. [31] As in other stages, bio-psycho-social forces are at work.
Comparing with adolescents, the left temporal pole has a stronger activity in adults when they read stories that elicit social emotions. [16] The temporal poles are thought to store abstract social knowledge. [17] [18] This suggests that adult might use social semantic knowledge more often when thinking about social-emotional situations than ...
Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST; developed by Stanford psychologist Laura L. Carstensen) is a life-span theory of motivation.The theory maintains that as time horizons shrink, as they typically do with age, people become increasingly selective, investing greater resources in emotionally meaningful goals and activities.