Publication details
Sociální dimenze optimálního vývoje: Otázky a výzvy.
| Title in English | Social dimension of optimal development: Questions and challenges. |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Ceskoslovenska Psychologie/Czechoslovak Psychology |
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| Web | http://cspsych.psu.cas.cz/files/cspsych_supplement_2016.pdf |
| Keywords | optimal development; adaptive social functioning; longitudinal research |
| Description | Optimal development is an area that is associated with more systematic research in last years. Even due to its relatively short history it is "connected with numerous inconsistent and ambiguous areas, which are a challenge for both theoretical and empirical level. These include terminological and partly also contextual inconsistencies of the construct of optimal development and its cultural and historical dependence. The suitability of the selection of criteria of optimality is often discussed; these are insufficiently defined in many studies. The paper deals mainly with the social dimension of optimal development and problems related mainly to the selection of adequate indicators (career stability, socioeconomic status, absence of risk behavior etc.). Many of them are culturally specific and influenced by cohort effect that can affect mainly the interpretation of the results of longitudinal studies and cross-cultural comparisons. |