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Personality Development Across the Lifespan examines the development of personality characteristics from childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood up to and including old age. Providing a comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives, methods, and empirical findings of personality and developmental psychology, the book provides detailed insight on how individuals differ from each other, how they change during life, and how these changes relate to biological and environmental factors like major life events, social relationships, and health. The book starts with chapters on personality development in different life phases, moving to theoretical perspectives, the development of specific personality characteristics, personality development in relation to different contexts like close others, health, and culture, then on to methods in research on that topic and future directions of research on personality development. Introduces and reviews the most important personality characteristicsExamines personality in relation to different contexts and how it is related to important life outcomesDiscusses patterns and sources of personality development
