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Successful aging : perspectives from the behavioral sciences
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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, memor...
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.
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- Creator
- edited by Paul B. Baltes and Margret M. Baltes
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990
- Physical Details
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- xv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521435826, 9780511665684, 0521374545, 9780521374545, 052143582X
- OCLC
- ocm21334781
- Texts emanate from workshops organized by the European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 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
Subjects
- Older people -- Longitudinal studies.
- Aging -- Psychological aspects -- Longitudinal studies.
- Older people -- Health and hygiene -- Longitudinal studies.
- Longitudinal method.
- Older people -- Longitudinal studies.
- Aging -- Psychological aspects -- Longitudinal studies.
- Aged -- psychology
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- Aging -- psychology
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- Longitudinal Studies
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