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Social crisis and individual growth
— the long-term effects of the Great Depression | | Author(s) | Monika Ardelt |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 12, no 3, Fall 1998 |
| Pages | pp 291-314 |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Personality ; Life satisfaction ; Poor elderly ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The effects of the Great Depression on the social and psychological development of 81 white women and 39 white men from Berkeley, California, born around the turn of the century, was examined in this longitudinal study. Analyses showed that respondents who were classified as relatively wise in older age (in 1968-69) were as likely to experience economic hardship during the Great Depression as those considered low on wisdom in their later years. However, wise old men and women who suffered from economic deprivation during the Depression years became on average psychologically more healthy between 1930 and 1944. By contrast, psychological health scores of older people with low wisdom scores who went through similar Depression hardship experiences tended to decline during the same time period. Since wisdom and psychological health are empirically and theoretically related, these results add support to the claim that wisdom may be acquired through the successful resolution of crises and hardship. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981118405 A |
| Classmark | D: DK: F:5HH: F:W6: 3J: 7T |
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