A Cross-Sectional Age Comparison of the Self-System Between Younger and Older Adults
Description:
One of the most perplexing problems in the psychology of aging is whether there are characteristic changes in aspects of personality over the life course. This study attempts to address issues relating to changes in the self-system believed to take place as individuals grow older. Of particular interest is what age differences exist in the four components of the objective self described by Atchley (1982): the ideal self, self-concept, self-esteem, and self-evaluation. In order to examine the di…
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Date:
December 1992
Creator:
Warner, Laura J. (Laura Jan)