The causes of suicidal behaviour are not fully understood; however, this behaviour clearly
results from the complex interaction of many factors. Although many risk factors have been …

This review addresses conceptual and empirical research about how individual agency and
motivation influences development during adulthood and old age. The major life-span …

There is currently no consensus on how to study psychological situations, and situation
research is still riddled with problems of conceptualization (what is a situation and what is it …

Drawing on state-of-the-art personality and developmental research, this book presents a
new and broadly integrative theory of how people come to be who they are over the life …

Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent …

The association between personality traits and motivational units, such as life goals, has
been a long-standing interest of personality scientists. However, little research has …

The expression successful aging at work and related terms such as active, healthy, and
productive aging at work are frequently used by organizational researchers and …

Increasing numbers of empirical studies provide compelling evidence that personality traits
change across the entire lifespan. What initiates this continuing personality development …

Self-regulation, a social-cognitive process at the intersection of metacognition, motivation,
and behavior, encompasses how people conceptualize, strive for, and accomplish their …

The transition to adulthood requires young people to form, pursue and regulate goals that
have far reaching implications for success and wellbeing, including within the university …