pt. I. Temperament and emotion regulation -- Personality and paths to successful development : an overview / Lea Pulkkinen and Avshalom Caspi -- Temperament and socialization / Mary K. Rothbart and Samuel P. Putnam -- The role of emotionality and regulation in children's social competence and adjustment / Nancy Eisenberg, Richard A. Fabes, Ivanna K. Guthrie And Mark Reiser -- pt. II. Formation of social relationships -- Attachment relationships and appraisal of partnership : from early experience of sensitive support to later relationship representation / Klaus E. Grossmann, Karin Grossmann, Monika Winter and Peter Zimmermann -- How do adolescents select their friends? A behavior-genetic perspective / Richard J. Rose -- pt. III. Continuity in individual life paths -- Personality types in childhood and adolescence : main effects and person-relationship transactions / Marcel A.G. van Aken, Cornelis F.M., Van Lieshout, Ron H.J. Scholte and Gerbert J.T. Haselager -- The influence of early behavior patterns on later life / Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Robert Crosnoe -- Studying processes : some methodological considerations / Lars R. Bergman -- pt. IV. Environmental contributions to personality development -- The role of ethnic identity in personality development / Brett Laursen and Vickie Williams -- Time and change : psychosocial transitions in German young adults 1991 and 1996 / Rainer K. Silbereisen, Matthias Reitzle and Linda Juang -- pt. V. Life transitions -- Developmental regulation of life-course transitions : a control theory approach / Jutta Heckhausen -- Social selection, social causation, and developmental pathways : empirical strategies for better understanding how individuals and environments are linked across the life-course / Avshalom Caspi -- Pathways through challenge : implicatons for well-being and health / Carol D. Ryff, Burton H. Singer and Marsha Mailick Seltzer -- pt. VI. Personal goals and well-being -- Individual differences in personal goals in mid-thirties / Lea Pulkkinen, Jari-Erik Nurmi and Katja Kokko -- Social-production function (SPF) theory as an heuristic for understanding developmental trajectories and outcomes / Johan Ormel -- Searching for paths to successful development and aging : integrating developmental and action-theoretical perspectives / Jochen Brandtstädter.