Age significantly predicted performances on six memory tests which clearly defied verbal labeling. Low scores of older persons were responsible for the age effect. The progressively lower recognition scores suggested that nonverbal memory processing through all three modalities was affected adversely by age. (Author)

Neuroticism was related negatively and extraversion was related positively to most concurrent measures of well-being in both younger and older subsamples. Predictive correlations between personality and subjective well-being showed that enduring personality dispositions antedate and predict measures of personal adjustment to aging. (Author)