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Everyday problem solving across the adult life span
— influence of domain specificity and cognitive appraisal | | Author(s) | Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Yiwei Chen, Lisa Norris |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 4, December 1997 |
| Pages | pp 684-693 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Reasoning ; Life span ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Differences in problem-solving strategies for situations varying in three domains - consumer, home management, and conflict with friends - were examined among younger, middle-aged, and older adults. This study also examined the influence of perceived ability to resolve the problem, controllability, and causal attributions on strategy selection. Older adults were more problem focused in their approach to consumer and home management matters than adolescents and younger adults, who selected more passive-dependent strategies. In the more interpersonal domain - conflict with friends - older adults tended to select avoidant-denial strategies more so than younger adults. Across domains, the greater perceived ability to resolve a problem, the less the avoidant-denial strategy was adopted. The importance of distinguishing between social and instrumental problem solving, and of examining the cognitive appraisal of a problem situation are discussed. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980225006 A |
| Classmark | DA: DC: BG6: F: 4C: 7T |
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