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| The resilience of self-esteem in late adulthood | | Author(s) | Amy L Collins, Michael A Smyer |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 17, no 4, August 2005 |
| Pages | pp 471-489 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Self esteem ; Bereavement ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The relationship between loss and change in self-esteem over a 3-year period was investigated for a subsample of 1,278 older people from the Americans' Changing Lives Study (ACL), which was used to examine loss in the domains of health, financial security, or work and career, and self-esteem before or after the loss. There was a small but significant decrease in self-esteem between Wave 1 and Wave 2 of the study. Loss is one of the domains explained by less than 1% of the variance of self-esteem change. This low incidence of loss and the small change in high levels of self-esteem are further evidence of resilience in older people's psychological well-being.The implications for older people's use of cognitive strategies to manage losses and promote gains are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050914213 A |
| Classmark | DPA: DW: 3J: 7T |
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