2004 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 189-192
As the COE program, we are now planning to organize a whole life development research center, which covers the development as a time-axis from "birth" to "death". The purpose of this center is as follows: 1) to conduct empirical studies investigating basic mechanisms of human development from indiviuai-enviornment transactionai point of view; 2) to clarify current condition of life events (e.g., entrance to school, getting a job, marriage, childbirth, retirement) and to explore psychological, social, cultural risk factors which interrupt successful developmental transitions. To achieve this purpose, several longitudinal studies (e.g., from birth to entrance to elementary school, from school to workplace, from middle-age to senescence) have been started and collection of data on life-span human development has begun.
