Development and Assessment of Self-Authorship: Exploring the Concept Across Cultures

This book brings together new scholarship that expands and refines the concept of self-authorship across cultures. It adopts a constructive-developmental approach to self-evolution that emphasizes the interaction of personal characteristics and contextual influences on individuals' construction of knowledge, identities, and relationships.

Observing how particular individuals make meaning in their personal and social contexts from this point of view enables further study of the intersect…