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Title Successful aging : perspectives from the behavioral sciences / edited by Paul B. Baltes and Margret M. Baltes
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990

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Description xv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development ; [4]
European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development (Series) ; 4
Contents Psychological perspectives on successful aging : the model of selective optimization with compensation / Paul B. Baltes and Margret M. Baltes -- Medical perspectives upon successful aging / James F. Fries -- Successful aging in a post-retired society / David L. Featherman, Jacqui Smith, and James G. Peterson -- The optimization of cognitive functioning in old age : predictions based on cohort-sequential and longitudinal data / K. Warner Schaie -- The optimization of episodic remembering in old age / Lars Bäckman, Timo Mäntylä, and Agneta Herlitz -- Peak performance and age : an examination of peak performance in sports / K. Anders Ericsson -- Personal control over development and quality of life perspectives in adulthood / Jochen Brandtstädter and Bernhard Baltes-Götz
Successful mastery of bereavement and widowhood : a life-course perspective / Camille B. Wortman and Roxane Cohen Silver -- The Bonn longitudinal study of aging : coping, life adjustment, and life satisfaction / Georg Rudinger and Hans Thomae -- Risk and protective factors in the transition to young adulthood / Barbara Maughan and Lorna Champion -- Avoiding negative life outcomes : evidence from a forty-five year study / George E. Vaillant -- Developmental behavorial genetics and successful aging / Nancy L. Pedersen and Jennifer R. Harris
Analysis Humans Ageing
Notes Texts emanate from workshops organized by the European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Aging -- Psychological aspects -- Longitudinal studies.
Older people -- Health and hygiene -- Longitudinal studies.
Older people -- Longitudinal studies.
Older people -- Psychological aspects -- Longitudinal studies.
Aged -- psychology.
Aging -- psychology.
Longitudinal Studies.
Author Baltes, Margret M.
Baltes, Paul B.
European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development.
LC no. 90034827
ISBN 0521374545
052143582X (paperback)