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Aging, culture and control — setting a new research agenda
Author(s)	Richard Schulz, Jutta Heckhausen
Journal title	The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 3, May 1999
Pages	pp P139-145
Keywords	Ageing process ; Life span ; Mental health [elderly] ; Theory ; Research Reviews.
Annotation	In the context of reviewing the current status of research on ageing and control, the authors put forward five propositions. First, striving for primary control is a human universal invariant across historical time and diverse cultural settings. Second, the expression of control striving is in part shaped by culture. Third, the field needs to move away from the study of perceived control and its correlates to the study of motivational aspects of control. Fourth, controls should be studied in a life span context and the focus should be on key transitions that redefine opportunity. Finally, inasmuch as primary control striving is such a control element of human functioning, research on its demise at the end of life should receive high priority. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990826220 A
Classmark	BG: BG6: D: 4D: 3A:6KC
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