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| Psychological models of aging | | Author(s) | Johannes J F Schroots |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 14, no 1, Spring 1995 |
| Pages | pp 44-66 |
| Keywords | Mental ageing ; Theory ; Mathematical models. |
| Annotation | The field of psychogerontology is data rich but theory poor. It will be argued that a constructivist view of science in terms of models as metaphors encourages the development of theories in the field of ageing. Historically, there are three psychological models: Age, ageing, and the aged. The psychology of the aged is concerned with the thematic study of problematic and non-problematic older people. The psychology of age focuses on age differences and compares groups of people of different ages. The psychology of ageing studies some typicalness of change of average functioning over time. Recent psychological models of ageing emphasise degree of variability, rather than average functioning. Primary, secondary and tertiary ageing patterns are presented in terms of a differential psychology of ageing. A theoretical explanation of the differential ageing process will be given in terms of gerodynamics, which lays the foundation of the new branching model of ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970821248 A |
| Classmark | D6: 4D: 3LM |
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