scholarly journals Promoting Psychological Wellbeing across the Life Span: Prospects and Challenges in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. p43
Author(s):  
Togonu-Bickersteth Funmi ◽  
Taiwo Modupe ◽  
Oluwaleimu Oluwasegun
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Course Experiences

Psychological wellbeing consists of two philosophical perspectives: hedonic and eudaimonic viewpoints. These paradigms are developed and changes overtime across life span subject to life course experiences influenced by the individual’s live experience. More importantly early years’ experience moderate individuals’ psychological wellbeing as being positive or negative with attendant consequences. Understanding psychological wellbeing across developmental life course provides useful insights for life adjustment as individual, families and groups to navigate life turbulence.

Evolving views of Ageing and Longevity from Homer to Hippocrates: Emergence of Natural Factors, Persistence of the Supernatural

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
CALEB ELLICOTT FINCH
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Natural Factors ◽  
Biomedical Scientist ◽  
Human Ageing ◽  
Ancient Literature ◽  
Course Outcomes

During the three centuries from Homer to Hippocrates, views of human ageing and longevity evolved in a socio-cultural sense, with relationships to Greek medicine and science. I, as a biomedical scientist, examine ancient literature for roots of the idea that life-course outcomes can be influenced by tangible ‘natural’ factors, whether these are environmental or the result of lifestyle. The concept that an individual has any choice in health and ageing departs radically from ancient, persistent beliefs in the primacy of the supernatural, that the gods could predestine one's life span by birth or could alter it at any time.

Developmental and Life-Course Models of Crime

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-145
Author(s):  
David M. Day ◽  
Margit Wiesner
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Developmental Context ◽  
Interactional Theory ◽  
Developmental Science ◽  
Systems Framework

This chapter provides an overview of theoretical process models for the explanation of crime in developmental context. It introduces key propositions from leading developmental and life-course theories of offending, including the dual taxonomy of antisocial behavior, coercion theory, interactional theory, and age-graded theory of informal social control, and stresses the need for further elaboration of the role of human agency in criminal trajectories across the life span. The chapter also describes the core tenets of the relational developmental systems framework, which serves as a major metamodel that undergirds contemporary developmental science. It is argued that developmental science theories of intentional self-regulation across the life span hold great promise to enrich criminological theorizing on human agency.

scholarly journals LATENCY/PATHWAYS, FUNCTIONALISM/MORPHOGENESIS: CONTRASTING PARADIGMS OF LIFE-COURSE INEQUALITY AND CHANGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S418-S418
Author(s):  
Dale Dannefer
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Gerontological Research ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
Life Course Studies ◽  
Independent Effects ◽  
Course Outcomes ◽  
Key Resources

Abstract Attention to dis/advantage during childhood has become a major interest of life-course studies. It has been a force in advancing attention to inequality over the undifferentiated “normal aging” versions of life-course and gerontological research, making clear the irreducible importance of the presence/ absence of key resources in accounting for life-course outcomes, from early onward. Explanatory strategies set forth within this work often contrast “latency/early origins” models (with explanation anchored in the early years) with “pathways” models (which examine the independent effects of adult life-course circumstances). This paper argues that these two types of models actually are aligned with distinct conceptual paradigms that imply fundamentally different understandings of aging in society (“functionalist/organismic” and “systemic/morphogenetic”). The differential implications of these two models for the relation of cumulative dis/advantage and social change is explored.

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