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| Selection, optimization, and compensation as strategies of life management: correlations with subjective indicators of successful aging | | Author(s) | Alexandra M Freund, Paul B Baltes |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 4, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 531-543 |
| Keywords | Well being ; Life satisfaction ; Attitude ; Germany. |
| Annotation | The usefulness of self-reported processes of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) for predicting on a correlational level the subjective indicators of successful ageing was examined in this German study. The sample of Berlin residents was a subset of the participants of the Berlin Aging Study. Three domains (marked by 6 variables) served as outcome measures of successful ageing: subjective well-being, positive emotions, and absence of feelings of loneliness, Results confirm the central hypothesis of the SOC model: individuals who reported using SOC-related management behaviours (which were unrelated in content to the outcome measures) had higher scores on the three indicators of successful ageing. The relationships obtained were robust even after controlling for other measures of successful mastery such as personal life investment, neuroticism, extroversion, openness, control beliefs, intelligence, subjective health, or age. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990218401 A |
| Classmark | D:F:5HH: F:5HH: DP: 767 |
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