Measuring environment across the life span : emerging methods and concepts /
Psychologists have long understood that laboratory settings only approximate genuine human environments. Yet, how can the influence of the real world, with all its complexity and variability, be measured? This book deals with this question by providing theoretical models and testing methods for quan...
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Washington, DC :
American Psychological Association,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Environments in Developmental Perspective: Theoretical and Operational Models / Urie Bronfenbrenner
- Ch. 2. The Home Environment / Robert H. Bradley
- Ch. 3. Measuring the Peer Environment of American Adolescents / B. Bradford Brown
- Ch. 4. Environmental Taxonomy: Generalizations From Research With Older Adults / M. Powell Lawton
- Ch. 5. The Child-Care Environment: Conceptualizations, Assessments, and Issues / Sarah L. Friedman and Jo-Ann Amadeo
- Ch. 6. Conceptualization and Measurement of Children's After-School Environments / Deborah Lowe Vandell and Jill K. Posner
- Ch. 7. Assessing the School Environment: Embedded Contexts and Bottom-Up Research Strategies / Joan E. Talbert and Milbrey W. McLaughlin
- Ch. 8. The Workplace Environment: Measurement, Psychological Effects, and Basic Issues / Carmi Schooler
- Ch. 9. Measurement of the Physical Environment as a Stressor / Gary W. Evans.