Successful Aging as Management of Resources: The Role of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation.
One of the central tenets of life-span psychology is that the process of development entails gains and losses that occur over the entire life span. Thus, Paul and Margret Baltes (1990) conceptualized successful aging as a lifelong process of maximizing gains and minimizing losses by means of three p...
| Publicado en: | Research in Human Development Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 94 - 107 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2008
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