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Alexandra M. Freund - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Motivational Life-Span Perspective on Procrastination: The Development of Delaying Goal Pursuit Across Adulthood
Research in Human Development, 2018Co-Authors: Oliver J. Kaftan, Alexandra M. FreundAbstract:Procrastination is a common self-regulation failure that has been studied mainly in the educational context, but has been largely neglected in Life-Span psychology. Adopting a Life-Span motivational Perspective, we focus on adult development and maintain that, historically seen, adults nowadays have to take on a more active role in pursuing their goals due to the deregulation of the life course and increased life expectancy. This requires higher self-regulatory skills, particularly with increasing age. When self-regulation fails, people may postpone developmental goals and experience negative consequences. We propose research questions that might foster the understanding of procrastination from a Life-Span Perspective.
Michael F Scheier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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do the emotional benefits of optimism vary across older adulthood a life span Perspective
Journal of Personality, 2017Co-Authors: Carsten Wrosch, Joelle Jobin, Michael F ScheierAbstract:Objective. This study examined whether the emotional benefits of dispositional optimism for managing stressful encounters decrease across older adulthood. Such an effect might emerge because age-related declines in opportunities for overcoming stressors could reduce the effectiveness of optimism. Method. This hypothesis was tested in a six-year longitudinal study of 171 community-dwelling older adults (age range = 64 to 90 years). Results. Hierarchical linear models showed that dispositional optimism protected relatively young participants from exhibiting elevations in depressive symptoms over time, but that these benefits became increasingly reduced among their older counterparts. Moreover, the findings showed that an age-related association between optimism and depressive symptoms was observed particularly during periods of enhanced, as compared to reduced, stress. Conclusions. These results suggest that dispositional optimism protects emotional well-being during the early phases of older adulthood, but that its effects are reduced in advanced old age.
Lee H Swanson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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what develops in working memory a life span Perspective
Developmental Psychology, 1999Co-Authors: Lee H SwansonAbstract:This study investigated whether working-memory (WM) span differences across age are attributable to specific or general processing functions. The study compared 9 age groups (6, 8, 10, 13, 16, 24, 35, 45, 57 years) on verbal and visuospatial WM performance under initial (no probes or cues), gain (cues that bring performance to an asymptotic level), and maintenance conditions (asymptotic conditions without cues). (a) Age-related performance differences in WM were found across all conditions and were not isolated to specific processes, (b) significant performance differences remained among age groups on gain and maintenance conditions, and (c) the gain (accessing new information) and maintenance conditions (maintenance of old information) for verbal and visuospatial WM tasks contributed independent variance to age-related performance. The results support a general capacity explanation of age-related differences. These differences in capacity reflect demands placed on both the accessing of new information and the maintenance of old information.
Oliver J. Kaftan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Motivational Life-Span Perspective on Procrastination: The Development of Delaying Goal Pursuit Across Adulthood
Research in Human Development, 2018Co-Authors: Oliver J. Kaftan, Alexandra M. FreundAbstract:Procrastination is a common self-regulation failure that has been studied mainly in the educational context, but has been largely neglected in Life-Span psychology. Adopting a Life-Span motivational Perspective, we focus on adult development and maintain that, historically seen, adults nowadays have to take on a more active role in pursuing their goals due to the deregulation of the life course and increased life expectancy. This requires higher self-regulatory skills, particularly with increasing age. When self-regulation fails, people may postpone developmental goals and experience negative consequences. We propose research questions that might foster the understanding of procrastination from a Life-Span Perspective.
Carsten Wrosch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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do the emotional benefits of optimism vary across older adulthood a life span Perspective
Journal of Personality, 2017Co-Authors: Carsten Wrosch, Joelle Jobin, Michael F ScheierAbstract:Objective. This study examined whether the emotional benefits of dispositional optimism for managing stressful encounters decrease across older adulthood. Such an effect might emerge because age-related declines in opportunities for overcoming stressors could reduce the effectiveness of optimism. Method. This hypothesis was tested in a six-year longitudinal study of 171 community-dwelling older adults (age range = 64 to 90 years). Results. Hierarchical linear models showed that dispositional optimism protected relatively young participants from exhibiting elevations in depressive symptoms over time, but that these benefits became increasingly reduced among their older counterparts. Moreover, the findings showed that an age-related association between optimism and depressive symptoms was observed particularly during periods of enhanced, as compared to reduced, stress. Conclusions. These results suggest that dispositional optimism protects emotional well-being during the early phases of older adulthood, but that its effects are reduced in advanced old age.