Goal pursuit and goal adjustment: Self-regulation and intentional self-development in changing developmental contexts

People strive to control their personal development and aging in order to strike a favorable balance of gains and losses; they do so, however, within changing developmental contexts that are partly beyond personal control. Subjective life-quality over the life course thus depends not only on efficient goal pursuit, but also on the readiness to adjust goals and ambitions to the feasible range. The model of assimilative and accommodative processes...