Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Psychological perspectives on successful aging: The model of selective optimization with compensation
- 2 Medical perspectives upon successful aging
- 3 Successful aging in a post-retired society
- 4 The optimization of cognitive functioning in old age: Predictions based on cohort-sequential and longitudinal data
- 5 The optimization of episodic remembering in old age
- 6 Peak performance and age: An examination of peak performance in sports
- 7 Personal control over development and quality of life perspectives in adulthood
- 8 Successful mastery of bereavement and widowhood: A life-course perspective
- 9 The Bonn Longitudinal Study of Aging: Coping, life adjustment, and life satisfaction
- 10 Risk and protective factors in the transition to young adulthood
- 11 Avoiding negative life outcomes: Evidence from a forty-five year study
- 12 Developmental behavioral genetics and successful aging
- Name index
- Subject index
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Psychological perspectives on successful aging: The model of selective optimization with compensation
- 2 Medical perspectives upon successful aging
- 3 Successful aging in a post-retired society
- 4 The optimization of cognitive functioning in old age: Predictions based on cohort-sequential and longitudinal data
- 5 The optimization of episodic remembering in old age
- 6 Peak performance and age: An examination of peak performance in sports
- 7 Personal control over development and quality of life perspectives in adulthood
- 8 Successful mastery of bereavement and widowhood: A life-course perspective
- 9 The Bonn Longitudinal Study of Aging: Coping, life adjustment, and life satisfaction
- 10 Risk and protective factors in the transition to young adulthood
- 11 Avoiding negative life outcomes: Evidence from a forty-five year study
- 12 Developmental behavioral genetics and successful aging
- Name index
- Subject index
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- Successful AgingPerspectives from the Behavioral Sciences, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990