CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT: THREE CASE STUDIES OF THE PROCESS OF GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION (COPING).
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Title
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CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT: THREE CASE STUDIES OF THE PROCESS OF GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION (COPING).
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Identifier
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AAI8423056
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identifier
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8423056
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Creator
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FRISCHER, MURIEL LEE.
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Contributor
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Herbert Nechin
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Date
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1984
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical
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Abstract
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This study examines continuity and discontinuity of coping style in three girls whose coping style was assessed at two developmental points: post-rapprochement crisis and post-oedipal phase. Coping style was assessed in terms of negotiation of developmental tasks, as well as management of challenges, threats, and opportunities for experience. Post-rapprochement data was gathered at a mother-infant observational nursery. Post-oedipal data consisted of psychological testing, parent and teacher interviews, and school observations. A further purpose involved the development of the Portraits of Coping Style, an instrument for assessing coping at the two phases. As expected, strongest continuities between age periods were found in areas most closely relaed to constitutional endowment. Substantial continuities in style were evident in basic reaction patterns, but there was sharp discontinuity in degree of motor control and in anxiety level. Moderate continuity was seen in sources of gratification and distress. For developmental tasks, coping with tasks related to psychosexual phase showed greater continuity than for those related to separation-individuation. Often, strongest continuity was seen in areas where subjects had specific coping problems. However, sometimes efforts to cope with specific problems stimulated shifts in style. In her own way, each of the subjects displayed quite substantial continuity, both in overall coping style and in its various elements. Salient continuities were different for each and related to central organizing trends in the youngster's constitution, personality, or experience.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
