ADOLESCENT COMPETENCE AND THE SHAPING OF THE LIFE COURSE
ADOLESCENT COMPETENCE AND THE SHAPING OF THE LIFE COURSE
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DOI：
10.1086/229609
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发表时间：
1991-01-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
CLAUSEN, JS
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作者：
CLAUSEN, JS
文化和社会结构特征与个人的生理和心理特征的相互作用以及个人的承诺和有目的的努力塑造了生命历程。在现代社会中，理性和功能性已经取代传统，成为向成年过渡的个人选择的决定因素。青少年的能力应使他们能够思考职业和婚姻选择，并抑制作出不明智选择的倾向。因此，有能力的青少年应该有更稳定的职业和婚姻，而且，因为他们比能力差的青少年更容易因自己的属性而得到回报，他们在成年后经历的性格变化应该更少。这些假设在很大程度上得到了50多年纵向队列研究数据的证实。
The life course is shaped by the interaction of cultural and social structural features with physical and psychological attributes of the individual and by the commitments and purposive efforts of the individual. In modern society, rationality and functionality have replaced tradition as determinants of individual choices in the transition to adulthood. Adolescent competence should lead to thinking through career and marital choices and inhibiting tendencies to make unwise choices. Therefore, competent adolescents should have more stable careers and marriages, and, because they will more often be rewarded for their attributes than will less competent ones, they should experience less personality change over the adult years. These hypotheses are largely confirmed with data from a longitudinal cohort studied for more than 50 years.