TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Everyday functioning and successful aging: the impact of resources
JO  - Psychology and aging
A1  - Baltes, M. M.
A1  - Lang, F. R.
SP  - 433
EP  - 443
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
N2  - The goal of this article is to examine differential aging in everyday functioning between resource-rich and resource-poor older adults. Four groups of older adults were identified on the basis of 2 distinct resource factors: a Sensorimotor-Cognitive factor and a Social-Personality factor. The resource-richest group consisted of those participants who were above the median in both factors; those falling below the median in both factors comprised the resource-poorest group; and 2 additional groups consisted of older adults who were above the median in either 1 of the 2 factors. At the level of mean differences, the 4 groups differed in the length of the waking day, the variability in activities, the frequency of intellectual-cultural and social-relational activities, and resting times. Considering age differences there are more and larger negative age effects in the resource-poorest group than in the resource-richest one. The metamodel of selective optimization with compensation is used to interpret the findings.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0882-7974
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -