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- A life-span theory of control. (1995) (1696)
- Motivation and action (1991) (1275)
- A motivational theory of life-span development. (2010) (1193)
- A life span model of successful aging. (1996) (726)
- Gains and losses in development throughout adulthood as perceived by different adult age groups. (1989) (590)
- Developmental Regulation in Adulthood: Age-Normative and Sociostructural Constraints as Adaptive Challenges (1998) (437)
- Developmental regulation across adulthood: primary and secondary control of age-related challenges. (1997) (357)
- Primary and secondary control strategies for managing health and financial stress across adulthood. (2000) (325)
- Motivation and Self-Regulation Across the Life Span: List of Contributors (2009) (301)
- Developmental Expectations for the Self and Most Other People: Age Grading in Three Functions of Social Comparison (1993) (264)
- Developmental regulation before and after a developmental deadline: the sample case of "biological clock" for childbearing. (2001) (254)
- Control processes before and after passing a developmental deadline: Activation and deactivation of intimate relationship goals (1999) (215)
- Get an Apprenticeship before School Is Out: How German Adolescents Adjust Vocational Aspirations When Getting Close to a Developmental Deadline (2002) (197)
- Perceived control over development and subjective well-being: differential benefits across adulthood. (2001) (188)
- Optimisation by Selection and Compensation: Balancing Primary and Secondary Control in Life Span Development (1993) (175)
- Developmental regulation across the life span: toward a new synthesis. (2013) (174)
- Efficacy of Home-Based Telerehabilitation vs In-Clinic Therapy for Adults After Stroke: A Randomized Clinical Trial. (2019) (153)
- Perceived control of life regrets: good for young and bad for old adults. (2002) (152)
- Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens (2020) (148)
- Health stresses and depressive symptomatology in the elderly: the importance of health engagement control strategies. (2002) (145)
- Motivational psychology of human development : developing motivation and motivating development (2000) (135)
- Developmental regulation across adulthood: Primary and secondary control of age-related challenges. (1997) (134)
- Goal Engagement during the School-Work Transition: Beneficial for All, Particularly for Girls. (2008) (133)
- Aging, culture and control: setting a new research agenda. (1999) (122)
- Perceived problems for self and others: self-protection by social downgrading throughout adulthood. (1997) (120)
- Motivation and action (2nd ed.). (2008) (109)
- Control striving in older adults with serious health problems: A 9-year longitudinal study of survival, health, and well-being. (2010) (105)
- Perceived controllability of expected psychological change across adulthood and old age. (1991) (103)
- Developmental regulation in adulthood: Selection and compensation via primary and secondary control (1998) (102)
- Agency and Motivation in Adulthood and Old Age. (2019) (98)
- More or less "me" in past, present, and future: perceived lifetime personality during adulthood. (1997) (94)
- Health Stresses and Depressive Symptomatology in the Elderly (2004) (91)
- What Do They Want in Life?: The Life Goals of a Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Generational Sample of High School Seniors (2006) (85)
- Perceived Social Environment and Adolescents’ Well-Being and Adjustment: Comparing a Foster Care Sample With a Matched Sample (2006) (83)
- Motivation and Action: Introduction and Overview (2018) (81)
- The primacy of primary control is a human universal: a reply to Gould's (1999) critique of the life-span theory of control. (1999) (78)
- Developmental regulation in adulthood: Optimization in primary and secondary control - A multiscale questionnaire (OPS-Scales). Technical report (1998) (75)
- Adult Development, Control, and Adaptive Functioning (1991) (74)
- Emotion and Control: A Life-Span Perspective (1997) (74)
- TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT: ADAPTIVE BEREAVEMENT BY TRANSFORMING MENTAL TIES TO THE DECEASED (2003) (70)
- Control and the disablement process in the elderly. (1994) (70)
- A Lines-of-Defense Model for Managing Health Threats: A Review (2013) (67)
- Nonparental Adults as Social Resources in the Transition to Adulthood (2010) (67)
- The interplay of occupational motivation and well-being during the transition from university to work. (2012) (66)
- Adaptive adjustment of vocational aspirations among German youths during the transition from school to work (2009) (65)
- Adaptation and resilience in midlife (2001) (64)
- Is it adaptive to disengage from demands of social change? Adjustment to developmental barriers in opportunity-deprived regions (2010) (63)
- Balancing for Weaknesses and Challenging Developmental Potential: A Longitudinal Study of Mother-Infant Dyads in Apprenticeship Interactions (1987) (62)
- Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Motivation (2000) (62)
- Successful aging at work: A process model to guide future research and practice (2020) (60)
- Changes in life satisfaction when losing one's spouse: individual differences in anticipation, reaction, adaptation and longevity in the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) (2016) (56)
- Primary and Secondary control StrategieS: imPlicationS for HealtH and Well-Being among older adultS (2009) (56)
- Conceptualizing Individual Agency in the Transition from School to Work: A Social-Ecological Developmental Perspective (2019) (55)
- Perceived personal control buffers terminal decline in well-being. (2014) (52)
- Personality development across the adult life span: subjective conceptions vs cross-sectional contrasts. (1993) (51)
- Striving for Educational and Career Goals During the Transition After High School: What is Beneficial? (2013) (51)
- The Motivation-Volition Divide and Its Resolution in Action-Phase Models of Developmental Regulation (2007) (48)
- Stressful events compromise control strivings during a major life transition (2007) (46)
- Happiness as a Motivator (2012) (45)
- The emergence of visually realistic contour in the drawing of the human figure (2002) (44)
- Selectivity in life-span development: Biological and societal canalizations and individuals' developmental goals (1999) (43)
- Perceiving middle-aged adults: effects of stereotype-congruent and incongruent information. (1995) (41)
- University students' causal conceptions about social mobility: Diverging pathways for believers in personal merit and luck (2013) (41)
- Perceived Control Across the Second Half of Life: The Role of Physical Health and Social Integration (2017) (41)
- Developmental regulation across the life span : An action-phase model of engagement and disengagement with developmental goals (2000) (40)
- Can Ambition Help Overcome Social Inequality in the Transition to Adulthood? Individual Agency and Societal Opportunities in Germany and the United States (2009) (39)
- Downward social comparison and subjective well-being in late life: The moderating role of perceived control (2013) (37)
- Shared Agency with Parents for Educational Goals: Ethnic Differences and Implications for College Adjustment (2009) (35)
- Mnemonic Training for the Acquisition of Skilled Digit Memory (1987) (35)
- Goal Management Across Adulthood and Old Age: The Adaptive Value of Primary and Secondary Control. (2006) (35)
- A multi-disciplinary model of life-course canalization and agency. (2019) (35)
- Career-related goal pursuit among post-high school youth: Relations between personal control beliefs and control strivings (2012) (34)
- Developmental regulation of life-course transitions: A control theory approach. (2002) (33)
- Levels of and Changes in Life Satisfaction Predict Mortality Hazards: Disentangling the Role of Physical Health, Perceived Control, and Social Orientation (2017) (32)
- Competence and Motivation in Adulthood and Old Age: Making the Most of Changing Capacities and Resources. (2005) (31)
- Aging and Health (2011) (30)
- Engagement and disengagement across the life span: An analysis of two-process models of developmental regulation (2005) (29)
- Becoming Aware of One's Competence in the Second Year: Developmental Progression within the Mother Child Dyad (1988) (29)
- Challenges to developmental regulation across the life course (2016) (26)
- For better or worse (2016) (26)
- Sustaining Primary Control Striving for Achievement Goals During Challenging Developmental Transitions: The Role of Secondary Control Strategies (2013) (25)
- A Cross‐Ethnic Study of Adolescents' Depressed Mood and the Erosion of Parental and Peer Warmth During the Transition to Young Adulthood (2009) (25)
- Maintaining Perceived Control with Unemployment Facilitates Future Adjustment. (2016) (25)
- Transition from school to work: Societal opportunities and individual agency: Introduction (2002) (23)
- It's only a dream if you wake up: Young adults' achievement expectations, opportunities, and meritocratic beliefs (2017) (22)
- Optimized Engagement Across Life Domains in Adult Development: Balancing Diversity and Interdomain Consequences (2016) (22)
- Being on-time or off-time : Developmental deadlines for regulating one ' s own development (2002) (20)
- Social Mobility in the Transition to Adulthood (2015) (20)
- A motivation treatment to enhance goal engagement in online learning environments: Assisting failure-prone college students with low optimism. (2019) (20)
- Goal Striving and Maladaptive Coping in Adults Living With Spinal Cord Injury: Associations With Affective Well-Being (2011) (20)
- The Future of Lifespan Developmental Psychology: Perspectives from Control Theory (2003) (20)
- Motivation and Action: Motivation and Development (2008) (19)
- High-school seniors' college enrollment goals: Costs and benefits of ambitious expectations. (2015) (19)
- Parents still matter: Patterns of shared agency with parents predict college students’ academic motivation and achievement. (2016) (19)
- Cohort differences in adult-life trajectories of internal and external control beliefs: A tale of more and better maintained internal control and fewer external constraints. (2019) (18)
- Primary Control Striving for Career and Educational Goals (2012) (18)
- Motivational Self-Regulation in the Work Domain: Congruence of Individuals’ Control Striving and the Control Potential in Their Developmental Ecologies (2012) (18)
- High-school predictors of university achievement: Youths' self-reported relationships with parents, beliefs about success, and university aspirations. (2016) (17)
- Prostate cancer patients gradually advance goals for rehabilitation after radical prostatectomy: applying a lines-of-defense model to rehabilitation. (2014) (16)
- Globalization, Social Inequality, and Individual Agency in Human Development: Social Change for Better or Worse? (2010) (16)
- Motivation and Self-Regulation Across the Life Span: Introduction (1998) (16)
- Engagement With Six Major Life Domains During the Transition to Retirement: Stability and Change for Better or Worse (2019) (15)
- Social Motivation and Perceived Responsibility in Others: Attributions and Behavior of African American Boys Labeled as Aggressive (1998) (14)
- Developmental Regulation in Adulthood: Developmental Goals as Organizers of Developmental Regulation (1998) (14)
- Developmental regulation with progressive vision loss: Use of control strategies and affective well-being. (2016) (13)
- Youth’s Causal Beliefs About Success: Socioeconomic Differences and Prediction of Early Career Development (2017) (13)
- Calibrating Independence Goals and Partner Support: Couples Adjust to Functional Limitations after Tumor Surgery. (2015) (13)
- How do mothers know? infants' chronological age or infants' performance as determinants of adaptation in maternal instruction? (1987) (13)
- Subjective well-being in times of social change: congruence of control strategies and perceived control. (2013) (13)
- Risk of cognitive declines with retirement: Who declines and why? (2020) (12)
- A motivation-enhancing treatment to sustain goal engagement during life course transitions (2016) (12)
- Subjective Age at Work: Feeling Younger or Older Than One’s Actual Age Predicts Perceived Control and Motivation at Work (2019) (12)
- Negative affect and the disablement process in late life: A life-span control theory approach (1999) (12)
- A Feasibility Study of Expanded Home-Based Telerehabilitation After Stroke (2021) (12)
- Motivation-focused thinking: Buffering against stress-related physical symptoms and depressive symptomology (2015) (11)
- Competence and motivation at work throughout adulthood: Making the most of changing capacities and opportunities. (2017) (11)
- Motivational Theory of Lifespan Development (2019) (11)
- Well-being as a resource for goal reengagement: Evidence from two longitudinal studies. (2020) (11)
- Social construction and old age: Normative conceptions and interpersonal processes (1996) (11)
- Intense Arm Rehabilitation Therapy Improves the Modified Rankin Scale Score (2021) (10)
- Tenacious Self-Reliance in Health Maintenance May Jeopardize Late Life Survival (2017) (10)
- Social Network Structure Is Related to Functional Improvement From Home-Based Telerehabilitation After Stroke (2021) (10)
- Control strategies for managing physical health problems in old age: Evidence for the motivational theory of life-span development (2016) (10)
- Conflicted goal engagement: undermining physical activity and health in late life. (2014) (9)
- A life-span perspective on the interface between personality and intelligence (1994) (9)
- Predicting Changes in Older Adults' Interpersonal Control Strivings (2009) (8)
- Motivation and Action: Motivation and Action: Introduction and Overview (2008) (7)
- The development of mastery and its perception within caretaker-child dyads (2016) (7)
- Psychological Approaches to Human Development (2005) (7)
- New dietary concepts in small bowel transplantation. (2002) (7)
- Prosociality across adulthood: A developmental and motivational perspective. (2021) (7)
- Developmental Regulation in Adulthood: Social Comparisons as Prototypical Strategies in Developmental Regulation (1998) (7)
- Control Striving and Control Perception in a Life Span Developmental Framework (2016) (7)
- Social Inequality Across the Life Course: Societal Unfolding and Individual Agency (2016) (7)
- Work Value Transmission From Parents to Children: Early Socialization and Delayed Activation (2019) (6)
- Introduction : A developmental and process-oriented approach to motivation and self-regulation (1998) (6)
- Evolutionary psychology : Potential and limits of a Darwinian framework for the behavioral sciences (2000) (6)
- Integrating and instigating research on person and situation, motivation and volition, and their development. (2020) (6)
- Development of Motivation (2018) (6)
- The Motivation of Developmental Regulation (2018) (5)
- How Individuals Navigate Social Mobility: Changing Capacities and Opportunities in Careers Across Adulthood (2015) (5)
- Parenting and Adolescents’ Academic Achievement: The Mediating Role of Goal Engagement and Disengagement (2021) (5)
- Motivation and Healthy Aging: A Heuristic Model. (2021) (5)
- Soci(et)al Scaffolding of Individual Growth across the Life Span (2007) (5)
- Motivation and Healthy Aging at Work. (2021) (5)
- Transition from school to work: Societal opportunities and individual agency [Special issue] (2002) (4)
- Analytic strategies for the study of adaptation to major life events: Making the most of large-scale longitudinal surveys (2016) (4)
- Motivation and Action: Preface to the Second English Edition (2008) (4)
- Potential and limits of an evolutionary psychology approach : Introductory notes (2000) (4)
- Goal Changes and Healthy Aging. (2021) (4)
- Invited Commentary: Societal Constraints and Individual Agency: Navigating Educational Transitions for Upward Mobility (2020) (4)
- Developmental goals during the transition to young adulthood (2021) (3)
- Plasticity in human behavior across the lifespan (2001) (3)
- Book Review: Control of Human Behavior, Mental Processes, and Consciousness (2002) (3)
- Commentary: Self-Regulation, Motivation, and Developmental Psychopathology (1998) (3)
- Control Behavior: Psychological Perspectives (2001) (2)
- The development of life goals over the adult lifespan. (2021) (2)
- Conceptualizing Individual Agency in the Transition from School to Work: A Social-Ecological Developmental Perspective (2019) (2)
- Motives, Goals, and Well-Being Throughout the Lifespan (2017) (2)
- A Framework for Measuring Undergraduate Learning and Growth (2021) (2)
- Parents still matter (2016) (2)
- Motivation and Action 3/E (2020) (2)
- Striving for Educational and Career Goals During the Transition After High School: What is Beneficial? (2012) (2)
- Commentary: goal disengagement—past, processes, and future (2022) (1)
- Introduction to the special section on motivational self-regulation across the lifespan (2016) (1)
- Control Strategies and Daily Affect (2020) (1)
- Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment: Motivational affordances in school versus work contexts advantage different individuals (2014) (1)
- A Guide to Constructs of (1996) (1)
- Motivation entwicklungsregulativen Handelns (2018) (1)
- Control Strivings in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) (2014) (1)
- Abstract WP193: A Pilot Study of Expanded Home-Based Telerehabilitation After Stroke (2020) (1)
- College Students’ motivational beliefs and use of goal-oriented control strategies: Integrating two theories of motivated behavior (2022) (1)
- Ausbildung zum Gedächtniskünstler: Ein experimenteller Zugang zur Überprüfung von Theorien kognitiven Lernens und Alterns [Training a memory artist: An experimental paradigm to investigate theories of learning and cognitive aging] (1986) (0)
- Motivation and Action: References (2008) (0)
- ACTIVE INVESTMENT INTO WORK ACROSS ADULTHOOD: AGE-GRADED AND OCCUPATIONAL INFLUENCES (2017) (0)
- Lifespan Development, Theory of (2015) (0)
- Correction to: The Development of Life Goals Across the Adult Life Span. (2022) (0)
- THE IMPORTANCE OF DAILY CONTROL BELIEFS FOR SUCCESSFUL AND HEALTHY AGING (2017) (0)
- INDIVIDUAL AGENCY IN WORK AND CAREER: ADAPTATION DURING ADULTHOOD AND OLD AGE (2017) (0)
- New and Noteworthy Titles in Social Psychology from Cambridge University Press (2008) (0)
- Conclusions and the Prospects for a Future Research (2021) (0)
- Good for one bad for the other: Cancer patients’ compensatory control strategies and partners’ well-being (2015) (0)
- Motivation: Contemporary Research Agendas (1999) (0)
- TIMSS-Findings in Sweden (1998) (0)
- Career-related goal pursuit among post-high school youth: Relations between personal control beliefs and control strivings (2011) (0)
- Being unengaged at work but still dedicating time and energy: A longitudinal study. (2019) (0)
- Youth’s Causal Beliefs About Success: Socioeconomic Differences and Prediction of Early Career Development (2017) (0)
- The Covid-19 pandemic (2021) (0)
- 1 Motivation and Action : Introduction and Overview (2008) (0)
- Introductory Notes (2000) (0)
- Shared and nonshared agency for occupational goals with mothers, fathers, VIPs, and romantic partners during young adulthood (2022) (0)
- Developmental Regulation in Adulthood: Selectivity and Failure Compensation as Fundamental Requirements of Human Behavior and Development (1998) (0)
- A motivation-enhancing treatment to sustain goal engagement during life course transitions (2016) (0)
- European Journal of Developmental Psychology Volume 8, 2011, List of Reviewers (2011) (0)
- The effect of motive-goal congruence on adolescents’ academic goal engagement and disengagement (2022) (0)
- EXTERNAL, NOT INTERNAL CONTROL RELATES TO PHYSICAL FITNESS AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN OLDER ADULTS (2017) (0)
- The role of goal adjustment during rehabilitation from stroke. (2021) (0)
- MOTIVATION AND HEALTHY AGING AT WORK 1 Motivation and Healthy Aging at Work (2021) (0)
- Developmental Regulation in Adulthood: A Model of Developmental Regulation across the Life Span (1998) (0)
- Developmental Regulation in Adulthood: The Life Course as a Context of Action (1998) (0)
- Primary and Secondary Control across the Life Span (1998) (0)
- Self-regulation, motivation, and developmental psychopathology. (in press) (1998) (0)
- Looking Up and Looking Down: Young Adults' Response to Social Status Comparisons: (602522013-001) (2013) (0)
- Aspects of Motivation : Goal Engagement and Goal Disengagement Many theorists assume that individuals help shape their own development (2012) (0)
- Developmental Regulation in Adulthood: Developmental Regulation in Different Life-Course Ecologies (1998) (0)
- Control-related behavior and cognition: An area in need of conceptual structure and clarity. (2002) (0)
- Causal Conceptions About Socioeconomic Status Scale (2014) (0)
- Societal Beliefs for SES Causation Measure--Modified (2016) (0)
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