Contributions of Lifespan Psychology to the Future Elaboration of Developmental Systems Theory

摘要: Developmental systems theories stress that, across the human life span, development involves integration, or “fusion,” of changing relations among multiple levels organization that comprise ecology life. These range from biology through culture and history. Indeed, embeddedness all within history provides a temporal component to development; makes potential for change defining feature as such assures relative plasticity (i.e., systematic ontogeny) characterizes span. Moreover, this developmental system changes are interdependent. For instance, one level organization, e.g., in personality cognition individual, reciprocally related other levels, involving caregiving patterns spousal relationships familial organization. In turn, reciprocal both products producers levels. interrelations illustrate need integrated, multidisciplinary study span comprising The essence scholarship conceptualization investigation mutual regulation between person context or, words, relations, how structures function functions structured over time. lifespan model regulatory relational architecture—the selection, optimization, compensation (SOC)—is thus an exemplary theoretical frame which system.