Identity Flexibility During Adulthood: Perspectives in Adult Development

Preface

Part One: Concepts of Identity

1.On the Stability of Identity Interacting with the Impermanence of Time

Evangeline A. Wheeler

2. Cognitive Underpinnings of Identity Flexibility in Adulthood

Jan D. Sinnott

Part Two: Research, Theory, Personal Experiences

3. Identity Flexibility and Wisdom in Adulthood: The Roles of a Growth-Oriented Identity Style and Contemplative Processes

4. In Experiential Exploration of Identity during Emerging Adulthood: The Impact of Growth Experiences on Emerging Adulthood Characteristics

Luke Boardman

5. Bridging the Gap: Black Immigrant Identities and Dreams of Home

Leonie J. Brooks

6. Flexibility in Persons with Dementia

Cameron J. Camp

7. Spirituality as a Framework for Confronting Life's Existential Questions in Later Adulthood

8. Rural-urban Migration, Quality of Life, and Identity Commitments among Badaga People of South India

Gareth Davey

9. The Concurrent Paths of Parental Identity and Child Development

Maria P. Fracasso

10. "Like a Constantly Flowing River": Gender Identity Flexibility among Non-binary Transgender Individuals

M. Paz Galupo, Lexi K. Pulice-Farrow, and Johanna L. Ramirez

11. Identity Stories to Jettison

Louise Green

12. Work and Identity Flexibility

13. Moving from Student to Professional

Shaina A. Kumar

14. Play, Flow, and Tailoring Identity in Middle Adulthood

Kevin Rathunde and Russell Isabella

15. Optimizing Challenges: Eminent Elders Meet Adversity with Identity Flexibility

Grant J. Rich

16. Identity Flexibility and Buddhism

Jeff Rosenberg

Vedat Sar

18. Caregiving Identity and Flexibility

Kim Shifren

19. Dual Identities and the Artist

Valerie Smith

20. The Sick Self

Betsey Stellhorn

21. "Just When I Knew All of Life's Answers, They Changed the Questions": A Eudaimonist Perspective on Identity Flexibility During the Adult Years

Index