This manuscript is an attempt to summarize and interpret the results of theoretical studies concerned with the mechanisms of personality change. It uses chaos theory as a framework for understanding of the mechanisms of ...

Importance of social values related to gender and reactivity was assessed for two groups of youth: 93 students (aged 19-26) and 99 pupils (aged 17-19) of secondary school in a small town. They were examined with Strelau ...

The wide variety of existing developmenta1 theories are organized along two dimensions; "goal-directed vs. nondirected" (qualitative vs. quantitative) and “stadial vs. nonstadial" (continuity vs. noncontinuity) changes. ...

This article analyzes the general principles of the conception of life span developmental psychology in compare with traditional psychology assumptions. It contains also the view of studies and conceptions on the possibilities ...