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| Age changes and differences in personality traits and states of the old and very old | | Author(s) | Peter Martin, M Valora Long, Leonard W Poon |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 2, March 2002 |
| Pages | pp P144-P152 |
| Keywords | Centenarians ; Octogenarians ; Young elderly ; Personality ; Attitude ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Stability and change in personality traits and states for 179 older Americans from three age groups - centenarians, octogenarians, and sexagenarians - were examined in a 2-wave study. Results concerning age group differences indicated that centenarians scored higher in Suspiciousness but lower in Intelligence and Stress, when compared with the other two age groups. Octogenarians were lower in the personality traits Intelligence, Dominance and Conscientiousness, when compared with sexagenarians; and were lower in Arousal but higher on Regression. Results from the longitudinal analyses for centenarians indicated lower scores for Sensitivity, high scores for Radicalism (both personality traits), as well as higher scores for Fatigue and Depression (personality states) at follow-up. For the 2 younger age groups, age changes included higher scores for Sensitivity and Suspiciousness (personality traits). Stability scores for traits and states were considerably lower for centenarians when compared with the younger age groups. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020614205 A |
| Classmark | BBT: BBM: BBA: DK: DP: 3J: 7T |
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