Adolescents future-orientation Kartoniert (TB)

The primary focus of this volume is on the adolescents' ability to direct their thoughts and actions towards the future and to create mental construals of hypothetical future events: present images wishes hopes fears and plans regarding action-goals in the future. The major aim is to understand how young people construct their future-oriented goals and the plans related to them as a means of navigating into adulthood how these efforts are determined by their previous life history and the extent to which they think future-orientation will influence their later lives. The contributions incl uded in this volume take one further step towards a full understanding of these complex mechanisms.