Towards a more complex, dynamic, and personalized perspective on development

Eccles and Wigfield’s (2023) impressive and influential work focuses on understanding human development and performance attainment. In this commentary, we would like to focus on their articulated hope that “…more complex system-type perspectives…will emerge over the next several years” (p. 10). Indeed, theoretical and practical progress in motivation science can be made by relying on complex and dynamic explanations for developmental processes and goal attainment at the individual level (e.g., Den Hartigh et al., 2022; Gernigon et al., 2015; Van Yperen, 2021). © 2022 American Psychological Association