The Process of Successful Aging: Selection, Optimization, and Compensation

摘要: Although much of the research done by social gerontologists focuses on decline and loss associated with old age, many older people experience last stage in life as a satisfying productive time life. Especially demographics world’s population change future decades, it becomes increasingly important to understand behavioral, cognitive, motivational processes involved optimal aging. This chapter—which draws heavily an earlier article Baltes Carstensen (1996)— considers historical, societal, philosophical influences that have directed attention away from successful aging offers metamodel selective optimization compensation (SOC) (Baltes & Baltes, 1990) framework for studying adaptive The process selection—namely, narrowing array goals domains which resources are directed—is considered be cardinal principle lifespan development is discussed generally terms specifically within realm behavior socioemotional selectivity theory (Carstensen, 1993,1998; Carstensen, Isaacowitz, Charles, 1999).