This review addresses conceptual and empirical research about how individual agency and
motivation influences development during adulthood and old age. The major life-span …

This article had four goals. First, the authors identified a set of general challenges and
questions that a life-span theory of development should address. Second, they presented a …

Using data from a computer‐based formative feedback system, we compare learning gains
in the 8 weeks of school closures related to the COVID‐19 pandemic in Switzerland with …

This is the third English edition of Motivation and Action, an extensively revised version of
the second English edition and fifth German edition, with four entirely new chapters. All …

Adolescence is a crossroads from childhood to adulthood. Childhood experiences and
biological characteristics are transformed into interests, competencies, and self‐beliefs and …

Contemporary youth spend increasingly longer time in the educational system, where their
career pursuits become closely intertwined with their educational goals. As career …

Three studies investigated the relevance of affect regulation, stressful life events, and
congruence between explicit achievement orientation and implicit achievement motive for …

Graduate employability has attracted considerable attention, unsurprisingly so: The
transition associated with graduation presents a series of strong events, that is likely to …

Careers today increasingly require engagement in proactive career behaviors; however,
there is a lack of validated measures assessing the general degree to which somebody is …

A successful school-to-work transition is crucial to an individual's initial entry into the labor
market and overall sustainable career development. Scholarly interest in how emerging …