developmental task
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developmental
adjective
uk/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.təl/us/dɪˌvel.əpˈmen.t̬əl/
connected with the development of someone ...
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task
noun
uk/tɑːsk/us/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition ofdevelopmentalandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is suggested that a history of harsh discipline is associated not only with social and emotional functioning, but also with thedevelopmentaltaskof autonomy and relatedness.
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Rather, it is the set of social, psychological, and biological processes through which one achieves comparative adjustment asdevelopmentaltaskdemands are confronted across the life span.
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A criticaldevelopmentaltaskof adolescence, therefore, is the construction of multiple selves in different roles and relationships.
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This still remains, despite the postmodern challenge, a keydevelopmentaltaskfor people in most modern societies.
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Finally, the findings suggest that the association between success in the variousdevelopmentaltask domains and the course of well-being during the transition was not dependent on initial well-being.
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In each case, although initial well-being contributed significantly to predicting the course of well-being, it did not contribute to a decrease in the effects of thedevelopmentaltaskdomain scores.
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Individuation, the process of developing a secure, stable, and autonomous sense of self, is the primarydevelopmentaltaskof late adolescence and young adulthood.
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Thedevelopmentaltaskof old age refers to attaining ego-integrity, which means accepting one's personal past as important, meaningful and satisfying.
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Logistic regression analyses were conducted to predict membership in the diverging well-being trajectory groups as a function ofdevelopmentaltaskdomain scores.
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To predict membership in the well-being trajectory groups as a function of meandevelopmentaltaskdomain scores, we conducted two logistic regression analyses, each examining diverging pairs of trajectory groups.
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Learning to create and maintain the discourse model is a formidabledevelopmentaltask, one that is accomplished in conjunction with the learning of referential forms.
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The acquisition of language is a complexdevelopmentaltaskthat requires the development of skills in the domains of phonology, semantics, grammar and pragmatics.
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These findings suggest the advantage of the main effects model in highlighting whichdevelopmentaltask domains are, on average, more central to predicting multifinality in well-being during the transition.
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All of the teachers stated that the development of a student's independence as a musician was an importantdevelopmentaltask.
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An importantdevelopmentaltaskwould be to overcome a lack of trust to be able to form positive social relationships with others.
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Trying to "take hold of some kind of life" is a good description of the overarchingdevelopmentaltaskof late adolescence and early adulthood.
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Thus, increasing adaptive emotion - cognition connections and the ability to symbolize emotions in consciousness is a highly significantdevelopmentaltaskfor the preschool years.
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Coping with the empty nest situation as adevelopmentaltaskfor the aging female - an analysis of the literature.
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Poor performance in this arena is viewed both as a failure indevelopmentaltaskdefinitions of competence and as externalizing problems or key symptoms of disruptive or conduct disorders.
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Thedevelopmentaltaskfor this stage is for each member to articulate their wants and needs.
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