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How and Why the Understanding of Developmental Continuity and Discontinuity is Important

  • Schulenberg J
  • Maggs J
  • O’Malley P
Springer US, (2007), 413-436
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-306-48247-2_19
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Abstract

No story is a straight line. The geometry of human life is too imperfect and too complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws. (Pat Conroy, 1995, p. 104)

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Schulenberg, J. E., Maggs, J. L., & O’Malley, P. M. (2007). How and Why the Understanding of Developmental Continuity and Discontinuity is Important. In Handbook of the Life Course (pp. 413–436). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48247-2_19

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