国外人口老化理论的心理学研究述评

进入20世纪以后，老龄化趋势在世界范围内加快了步伐。老年人口的快速增长给许多国家尤其是欧美发达国家带来了一系列的社会问题，同时也引发了大量关于老龄化趋势以及人口老化现象的科学研究。自然科学和社会科学的有关学科都对人类老化现象进行了较为深入的研究。心理学也提出了特定内涵的老化定义以及一些老化理论，并且形成了几种用以解释老化现象的发展模式。

A Review of Modern Psychological Research on Aging Theories Abroard

Since the beginuing of the 20 century the trend of agin g has quickened it steps in the wo rld. The rapid growth of the ageing population brought a series of social problems to many countries ,especially the developed countries of Europe and A merica, and at the same time it resulted in a lot of science researches about th e tre nd of aging and the phenomena of the aging pupulation. Many subjects including natural science and social science have made deep researches on the ageing prob lem. Psychology has made specific definition of ageing and advanced some theories on ageing,and set up some developmental models for the explanation of ageing.