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Everyday functioning and successful aging — the impact of resources
Author(s)	Margret M Baltes, Frieder R Lang
Journal title	Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 3, September 1997
Pages	pp 433-443
Keywords	Economic status [elderly] ; Mental health [elderly] ; Ageing process ; Independence ; Recreation ; Personal relationships ; Social surveys ; Germany.
Annotation	This study is part of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE), and aims to examine differential ageing in everyday functioning between resource rich and resource poor older adults. Four groups of older adults were identified on the basis of sensorimotor-cognitive and social-personality factors. The resource richest group comprised participants above the median in both factors; those below the median in both groups comprised the resource poorest group. Two further groups consisted of older adults above the median in either factor. The four groups differed in the length of waking day, the variability in activities, the frequency of intellectual-cultural and social-relational activities, and resting times. There are more and larger negative age effects in the resource poorest group than in the richest. The metamodel of selective optimisation with compensation is used to interpret the findings.
Accession Number	CPA-971120271 A
Classmark	F:W: D: BG: C3: H: DS: 3F: 767
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