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Direct linkLoy, Dennis E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research undertook to determine what motivates adults to continue learning while other less cognitively strenuous, and admittedly more hedonistic, choices exist. Many older adults desire to seek out and integrate knowledge about their environment, thus improving or stimulating intellectual functioning. Comparative analysis was used to…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Lifelong Learning, Older Adults, Motivation
