Age-Related Differences in Goals: Testing Predictions from Selection, Optimization, and Compensation Theory and Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

Autor/inn/en	Penningroth, Suzanna L.; Scott, Walter D.
Titel	Age-Related Differences in Goals: Testing Predictions from Selection, Optimization, and Compensation Theory and Socioemotional Selectivity Theory
Quelle	In: International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 74 (2012) 2, S.87-111 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-4150
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Older Adults; Prediction; Goal Orientation; Young Adults; College Students; Social Theories; Maintenance; Skill Development; Questionnaires; Content Analysis; Classification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Älterer Erwachsener; Vorhersage; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Collegestudent; Gesellschaftstheorie; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Fragebogen; Inhaltsanalyse; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	Two prominent theories of lifespan development, socioemotional selectivity theory and selection, optimization, and compensation theory, make similar predictions for differences in the goal representations of younger and older adults. Our purpose was to test whether the goals of younger and older adults differed in ways predicted by these two theories. Older adults and two groups of younger adults (college students and non-students) listed their current goals, which were then coded by independent raters. Observed age group differences in goals generally supported both theories. Specifically, when compared to younger adults, older adults reported more goals focused on maintenance/loss prevention, the present, emotion-focus and generativity, and social selection, and less goals focused on knowledge acquisition and the future. However, contrary to prediction, older adults also showed less goal focusing than younger adults, reporting goals from a broader set of life domains (e.g., health, property/possessions, friendship). (Contains 7 footnotes, 3 tables, and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10