Life Task Problem Solving: Situational Affordances and Personal Needs
- 1 June 1994
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 20 (3) , 235-243
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167294203001
Abstract
An analysis of life task problem solving provides an illustration of a common language for personality and social psychologies. The personal needs of individuals and the situational affordances of social life interactively define strategic solutions to life task problems. Research on situations that encourage a gentic or communal goals in late adolescents' pursuit of the intimacy life task and on three achievement strategies in which social support takes different forms to serve different individuals' needs exemplifies the coordination of what people need to do and what situations afford to be done in daily-life problem solving.Keywords
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