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Achievement domain and life expectancies in Japanese civilization
Author(s)	Dean Keith Simonton
Journal title	International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 44, no 2, 1997
Pages	pp 103-114
Keywords	Occupations ; Life span ; Life expectancy tables ; Life satisfaction ; Variance analysis ; Japan.
Annotation	Previous studies have found that the expected life span of eminent personalities may vary systematically according to area of achievement. This investigation examines the phenomenon more closely by: introducing methodological controls for gender and birth cohort; adding predictors such as suicide and homicide that provide clues to the basis for differences; scrutinising a greater variety of areas of achievement in both creativity and leadership; and using a non-Western sample of historical figures (1,632 Japanese born between 450 and 1185 A.D.). Multiple regression analyses revealed occupational contrasts in life expectancy (e.g. the shorter life span of fiction authors and political figures, but longer life spans of religious leaders and sword makers). The analyses also helped to decipher the extent to which such differences were due to violent death or to the stress of occupying high positions of power.
Accession Number	CPA-970731251 A
Classmark	XM: BG6: S7: F:5HH: 3YA: 7DT
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