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Age-Related Differences in Profiles of Mood-Change Trajectories
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Stanley, Jennifer Tehan; Isaacowitz, Derek M. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
As a group, older adults report positive affective lives. The extent to which there are subgroups of older adults whose moods are less positive, however, is unclear. Our aim in the present study was to identify and characterize different subgroups of adults who exhibit distinct trajectories of mood change across a relatively short time period.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aging (Individuals), Time Perspective, Multivariate Analysis
Age-Relevance of Person Characteristics: Persons' Beliefs about Developmental Change across the Lifespan
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Gruhn, Daniel; Gilet, Anne-Laure; Studer, Joseph; Labouvie-Vief, Gisela – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The authors investigated normative beliefs about personality development. Young, middle-aged, and older adults indicated the age-relevance of 835 French adjectives by specifying person characteristics as typical for any age decade from 0 to 99 years. With this paradigm, the authors determined age-relevance (How typical is a characteristic for a…
Descriptors: Personality Development, Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults
Global and Domain-Specific Changes in Cognition throughout Adulthood
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Tucker-Drob, Elliot M. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Normative adult age-related decrements are well documented for many diverse forms of effortful cognitive processing. However, it is currently unclear whether each of these decrements reflects a distinct and independent developmental phenomenon, or, in part, a more global phenomenon. A number of studies have recently been published that show…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Age Differences, Adults, Change