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Well-being: positive development across the life course provides the first comprehensive interdisciplinary look at well-being how it is defined, how it manifests itself, and how it unfolds across the life course.
The authors and editors focus on multiple core developmental strengths of well-being. Each chapter presents a review of the existing literature on a particular strength, the developmental stability of the strength, and the factors that foster cultivation of the strength. In addition, the authors comment on how the strength contributes to a sense of well-being and how the strength might be promoted.
Strengths are grouped within three domains: physical, social-emotional, and cognitive. Additionally, in a fourth group, the authors examine developmental transitions of well-being throughout adulthood.
Well-being: positive development across the life course is a must-read for all professionals, researchers, and members of organizations devoted to the promotion of well-being of children and adults.
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