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| Stability and change in positive self-appraisal from midlife to later aging | | Author(s) | Carole K Holahan |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 56, no 3, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 247-267 |
| Keywords | Self esteem ; Competence ; Middle aged ; Young elderly ; Octogenarians ; Life satisfaction ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 185 participants in the Terman Study of the Gifted were asked to rate themselves with respect to living up to their abilities in 1960 (at an average age of 48) and in 1995 (at an average age of nearly 85). While there was a positive relation between self-appraisal at the two times, net change favoured a more positive appraisal of ageing. Those who rated themselves positively at both times had more positive personality characteristics in early to mid adulthood, more education, better self-rated health in mid-life, somewhat higher ambition in early adulthood and mid-life, and greater satisfaction with their achievement in early ageing. Those who changed positively in their self-appraisal, as compared with those with a negative later self-appraisal, had somewhat better education, better self-rated health in mid-life, higher level occupations, and greater satisfaction with their achievement in early ageing. Self-appraisals in later ageing were related to current life satisfaction. Results are discussed in terms of the role of the self-concept and the self-narrative in life-span development. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040108213 A |
| Classmark | DPA: DPB: SE: BBA: BBM: F:5HH: 3J: 7T |
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