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| Personality, longevity, and successful aging among Tokyo metropolitan centenarians | | Author(s) | Yoshiko Shimonaka, Katsuharu Nakazato, Akira Homma |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 42, no 3, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 173-187 |
| Keywords | Centenarians ; Ageing process ; Longevity ; Personality ; Self esteem ; Sexual equality ; Measurement ; Japan. |
| Annotation | This article compares 82 centenarians (37 men and 45 women) with 605 people aged 60-89, in which personality and successful ageing were measured. The authors found that androgeny was not more prominent among centenarians than masculinity, femininity or undifferentiated. Their hypothesis that behaviour not displaying characteristics of hostility, anger, harassment, cynicism and suspiciousness is related to longevity was supported. They observed lower self-esteem for femininity than for either masculinity or androgeny; and that anxiety was lower for femininity than masculinity but higher than androgeny among women. The relationship of particular types of behaviour to successful ageing differs between men and women. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970731217 A |
| Classmark | BBT: BG: BGA: DK: DPA: TM8: 3R: 7DT |
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