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Adult life stage and crisis as predictors of curiosity and authenticity
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- Oliver C. Robinson
- University of Greenwich, UK
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- James D. Demetre
- University of Greenwich, UK
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- Jordan A. Litman
- Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- Testing inferences from Erikson’s lifespan theory
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<jats:p> During periods of developmental crisis, individuals experience uncomfortable internal incongruence and are motivated to reduce this through forms of exploration of self, other and world. Based on this, we inferred that being in a crisis would relate positively to curiosity and negatively to a felt sense of authenticity. A quasi-experimental design using self-report data from a nationally representative UK sample ( N = 963) of adults in early life (20–39 years), midlife (40–59 years) and later-life (60+) showed a pattern of findings supportive of the hypotheses. Three forms of curiosity (intrapersonal, perceptual and epistemic D-type) were significantly higher, while authenticity was lower, among those currently in crisis that those of the same age group not in crisis. Crisis was also related to curiosity about particular book genres; early adult crisis to self-help and spirituality, midlife to self-help and biography, and later life to food and eating. </jats:p>
Journal
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- International Journal of Behavioral Development
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International Journal of Behavioral Development 41 (3), 426-431, 2016-04-24
SAGE Publications
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- CRID
- 1362262943394592384
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- ISSN
- 14640651
- 01650254
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- Data Source
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- Crossref