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Successful aging : perspectives from the behavioral sciences
- Title
- Successful aging : perspectives from the behavioral sciences / edited by Paul B. Baltes and Margret M. Baltes.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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- Description
- xv, 397 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Based on research by the European Network on Longitudinal Studies, this book offers new insights into the nature of successful ageing, covering post-retirement society, cognitive functioning, memory, control of development and quality of life, widowhood and behavioural genetics.
- Series Statement
- European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development ; [4]
- Uniform Title
- European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development (Series) ; 4.
- Subject
- Alter, ..
- Older people > Longitudinal studies
- Aging > Psychological aspects > Longitudinal studies
- Older people > Health and hygiene > Longitudinal studies
- Longitudinal method
- Aged > psychology
- Aging > psychology
- Longitudinal Studies
- Longitudinal method
- Aging > Psychological aspects
- Older people
- Older people > Health and hygiene
- Altern
- Alterspsychologie
- Gesundheit
- Lebensbewältigung
- Lebenslauf
- Psychosoziale Situation
- Zufriedenheit
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Alter
- Veroudering (biologie, psychologie)
- Personnes a?ge?es > Sante? et hygie?ne
- Vieillissement > Psychologie
- Genre/Form
- Longitudinal studies
- Note
- Texts emanate from workshops organized by the European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Psychological perspectives on successful aging : the model of selective optimization with compensation / Paul B. Baltes and Margret M. Baltes -- Medical perspectives upon successful aging / James F. Fries -- Successful aging in a post-retired society / David L. Featherman, Jacqui Smith, and James G. Peterson -- The optimization of cognitive functioning in old age : predictions based on cohort-sequential and longitudinal data / K. Warner Schaie -- The optimization of episodic remembering in old age / Lars Bäckman, Timo Mäntylä, and Agneta Herlitz -- Peak performance and age : an examination of peak performance in sports / K. Anders Ericsson -- Personal control over development and quality of life perspectives in adulthood / Jochen Brandtstädter and Bernhard Baltes-Götz.
- Successful mastery of bereavement and widowhood : a life-course perspective / Camille B. Wortman and Roxane Cohen Silver -- The Bonn longitudinal study of aging : coping, life adjustment, and life satisfaction / Georg Rudinger and Hans Thomae -- Risk and protective factors in the transition to young adulthood / Barbara Maughan and Lorna Champion -- Avoiding negative life outcomes : evidence from a forty-five year study / George E. Vaillant -- Developmental behavioral genetics and successful aging / Nancy L. Pedersen and Jennifer R. Harris.
- ISBN
- 0521374545
- 9780521374545
- 052143582X
- 9780521435826
- LCCN
- 90034827
- OCLC
- ocm21334781
- 21334781
- SCSB-1905854
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library