Characteristics of Life-Span Perspective:
Life-span development expert, Paul Bates and his colleagues provide many of the main approaches to human development based on this perspective. They highlighted the following features of life-span perspective as follows:
- Development is a life-long process.
- Development is multidimensional.
- Development is multidirectional.
- Development is characterized by lifelong plasticity.
- Development is the result of multiple causation.
- Understanding development requires multiple disciplines.
- Development involves both gain and loss.
- Development is contextual.