Personal growth initiative and identity formation in adolescence through young adulthood: Mediating processes on the pathway to well-being

Identity Processes among Adolescents and Young Adults in Pakistan: Implications for Personal and Social Well-Being

Identity Development, Personality, and Well-Being in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD AND THE CONCEPT OF EMERGING ADULTHOOD 339 DIMENSIONS OF IDENTITY: PERSONAL AND CULTURAL 341 PERSONAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENCE AND EMERGING ADULTHOOD: EARLY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS 341 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIG FIVE DISPOSITIONS FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD 346 THE ROLE OF AGENCY IN PERSONAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT 348 CULTURAL IDENTITY IN ADOLESCENCE AND EMERGING ...

How trait curiosity influences psychological well-being and emotional exhaustion: The mediating role of personal initiative

This study investigates how trait curiosity influences employees’ psychological well-being and emotional exhaustion. Specifically, it proposes the mediating role of personal initiative in the abovementioned relationships. A total of 380 employees in China completed questionnaires that assessed their trait curiosity, personal initiative, psychological well-being, and emotional exhaustion states....

Growth Trajectories of Health Behaviors from Adolescence through Young Adulthood

Based on nine waves of data collected during a period of 17 years (1990-2007), the present study explored different developmental trajectories of the following unhealthy behaviors: regular smoking, lack of regular exercise, lack of daily fruit intake, and drunkenness. A baseline sample of 1195 13-year-old pupils was from 22 randomly selected schools in the Hordaland County in western Norway. La...

Personal Well - Being during Growth

This paper considers the relative importance of improvements in economic status in explaining improvements in non-monetary measures of well-being during Vietnam's economic boom in the 1990s. This study finds that improvements in economic status can explain virtually all of the 20 percent increase in schooling attainment and most of the observed improvements in child nutrition and declines in ch...