The adult’s well-being in the context of developmental goals
Keywords:
well-being, developmental goals, resources.Abstract
The adult life span is marked by various challenges and opportunities, the most important of which reflect the main developmental tasks. With time, the system of constraints and resources in which the individual evolve changes, forcing him to adapt to them through continuous adjustments. These adjustments involve, among other things, the choice, at the right time, the goals it pursues or sets as personal projects, but also the selection of those they postpone or give up. Since well-being reflects the success of adaptation to environmental requirements and constraints, this article proposes the hypothesis that the psychosocial resources available to the individual at different times of his adult life, have a different impact on well-being depending on the personal goals selected at the different stages of the adult developement. Thus, adults who have the right resources to progress towards harmoniously intergated personal development goals in a coherent system of intrinsic or extrinsic-identified objectives experience a better state of well-being, key resources being those that provide flexible adjustment to ontogenic changes.
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