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Successful Aging in Late Midlife: The Role of Personality Among College-Educated Women |
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| Authors: | H. Shellae Versey Abigail J. Stewart Lauren E. Duncan |
| Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, 112 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 80901, USA 2. Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, 3265 East Hall, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA 3. Department of Psychology, Smith College, Bass Hall 407, Northampton, MA, 01063, USA |
| Abstract: | Aging is characterized both by developmental maturity, as well as beliefs and ideas about growing older. This study examines relationships between successful aging, as defined by Rowe and Kahn (Science 237(4811):143–149, 1987), and two aspects of personality that are particularly salient in late midlife—generativity and concerns about aging—in three samples of college-educated women in their early sixties. Relationships between generativity and successful aging and concerns about aging and successful aging are assessed cross-sectionally and over time using multiple linear modeling. Concerns about aging and generativity are associated within time with successful aging; in addition, increased concerns about aging are associated with decreased successful aging, while increased generativity is associated with increased successful aging over time. Our findings highlight the value of examining changes in adult personality developmental preoccupations as a potential contributor to successful aging. |
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