Stephanie A. Tesch's research while affiliated with The Gerontological Society of America and other places

... These include: affection, cohesion, conflict resolution, compatibility, expressiveness, sexuality, autonomy, and identity. A number of other measures assessing intimacy similarly tap broad dimensions of relationships such as romantic love, supportiveness, ease of communication (Tesch, 1985), and trust (Guerney, 1977). ...

... First and foremost, the samples throughout the current work consisted primarily of collegeaged students. Friendships and the characteristics valued in friends valued change over the life span (Sherman et al., 2000;Tesch, 1983;Tesch & Martin, 1983). Indeed, cross-sex friendships are thought to serve different functions at various life stages (Monsour, 1997). ...

... These identities are reflexive and develop and persist both mechanically (i.e., unintentionally) and organically (i.e., purposefully through "identity construction") as individuals attempt to maintain a coherent and consistent identity in an ever-changing world (MacLure, 1993) and among multiple and simultaneous sources of structured cultural meanings (Zolfaghari, M€ ollering, Clark, & Dietz, 2016). Major personal (e.g., a debilitating injury (Sparkes & Smith, 2002) or college graduation (Whitbourne & Tesch, 1985)) or environmental (e.g., the dissolution of an important referent group (Ethier & Deaux, 1994) or the ascension of a negative social stereotype (Haslam, Turner, Oakes, McGarty, & Hayes, 1992)) changes can catalyze increased dynamism, and both mechanical and organic change, even in long-held identities. At some level then, identities are always "provisional" and subject to change especially when individuals aspire to improve their current or future self (Ibarra, 1999). ...

... Мъжете се борят за своята независимост и отделяне от другите Skoe and Marcia, 1991). Друга основна полова разлика в идентичността е породена от социокултурните очаквания на жените (баланс между професия и семейство), поради което изграждането на идентичността продължава по-дълго в сравнение с мъжете на тяхна възраст (Marcia, 1980(Marcia, , 1987. Според някои изследвания докато мъжете постигат идентичността си на 18-22 години, жените остават в мораториум от 17 до 47 годишна възраст (Kroger, 1987). ...

... Others have continued to use self-report scales, measuring the individual's degree of integrity and his or her degree of despair, such as the Northwestern Ego Integrity Scale (Janis et al. 2011;Kleinj et al. 2016;Westerhof et al. 2017). Still, others have used omnibus psychometric questionnaires designed to assess all the eight "psychosocial development" indicators, such as the Expanded Inventory of Psychosocial Development (Boylin et al. 1976;Tesch 1986), the Inventory of Psychosocial Balance (Domino & Affonso 1990;Domino & Hannah 1989), the Measure of Psychosocial Development (Hawley 1988), the Modified Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (Darling-Fisher & Leidy 1988) and the Psychosocial Inventory of Ego Strengths (Markstrom et al. 1997). 2 Other researchers have eschewed both semi-structured interviews and self-report questionnaires and instead have adopted a life narrative approach. These researchers have either elicited written accounts of people's lives and their paths through life, which are then reviewed and the salient themes in those narratives concerning integrity and despair coded as present or absent (Pals 2006;Torges et al. 2009) or have drawn upon archival material from longitudinal follow-up of a cohort, using a system of coding to highlight themes judged to reflect key aspects of either pole in Erikson's developmental stages (Vaillant 2012;Vaillant & Milofsky 1980). ...

... While some studies have examined the role of social integration and interaction in promoting wellbeing, these studies have focused on different dimensions of social integration or social interaction to that considered in this study (Ateca-Amestoy et al. 2014;Duckitt 1982;Ishii-Kuntz 1990;Lindquist 2000;O'Connell et al. 2014;Sandstrom and Dunn 2014;Tesch et al. 1981). Studies tend to focus on the role of interaction with family and close friends. ...