Selection, optimization, and compensation as strategies of life management: correlations with subjective indicators of successful aging
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People who use life-management behaviors related to selection, optimization and compensation (SOC) scored higher on the three indicators of successful aging, namely, subjective well-being, positive emotions and absence of feelings of loneliness. This was found in a study of the model of selective optimization with compensation as used in predicting the subjective indicators of successful aging. The findings remained even after other measures of successful mastery were controlled, such as neuroticism, personal life investment, extraversion and control beliefs.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 1998
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Developmental changes in personal goal orientation from young to late adulthood: From striving for gains to maintenance and prevention of losses
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Four studies were conducted to test life span hypotheses about goal orientation across adulthood. Younger adults reported a growth orientation in their goals whereas older adults reported a stronger orientation toward maintenance and loss prevention. Studies revealed a self-reported shift in goal orientation to the level of behavioral choice involving cognitive and physical fitness goals.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2006
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Focusing and restricting: Two aspects of motivational selectivity in adulthood
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Implications of two facets of motivational selectivity, restricting and focusing, for goal-pursuit investment is investigated, using short-term longitudinal design. The results show that motivational selectivity in terms of focusing is associated with an enhanced involvement in goal pursuit, irrespective of age.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2006
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