Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Although many developments in their lives could not have been foreseen, classifications made from data available for their adolescent years enabled Clausen and his colleagues to make impressive predictions of the paths their lives would take. Clausen shows how study members who, during their teenage years, displayed a high degree of planful competence made realistic choices early in life and were selected for promising opportunities as adults. Other aspects of personality, appearance, and social background also had long-term consequences, but adolescent planful competence proved far more potent than any other measure in indicating how lives would change, and who would experience essentially stable, as opposed to crisis-ridden, lives. . }
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- catalog description "Although many developments in their lives could not have been foreseen, classifications made from data available for their adolescent years enabled Clausen and his colleagues to make impressive predictions of the paths their lives would take. Clausen shows how study members who, during their teenage years, displayed a high degree of planful competence made realistic choices early in life and were selected for promising opportunities as adults. Other aspects of personality, appearance, and social background also had long-term consequences, but adolescent planful competence proved far more potent than any other measure in indicating how lives would change, and who would experience essentially stable, as opposed to crisis-ridden, lives. ".