Developmental approach to psychosocial risk factors and successful aging

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Social & Behavioral Science
Department Psychology
Creator Berg, Cynthia A.; Smith, Timothy W.
Other Author Henry, Nancy J. M.; Pearce, Gale E.
Title Developmental approach to psychosocial risk factors and successful aging
Date 2007
Description Successful aging has been characterized as maintaining physical health (avoiding disease), sustaining good cognitive function, and having active engagement with other people and productive activities (Rowe 8c Kahn, 1998). Although these three factors are known to be interrelated, the field has largely examined physical health outcomes as primary and separate from cognitive outcomes, with active social engagement as a predictor of physical health and occasionally cognitive functioning. In this chapter we take a more transactional perspective to these factors of successful aging, understanding how they interact throughout the lifespan to create developmental trajectories of varying levels of success.
Type Text
Publisher Guilford Press
Journal Title Handbook of Health Psychology and Aging
First Page 30
Last Page 53
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Berg, C. A., Smith, T. W., Allen, N., & Pearce, G. (2007). Developmental approach to psychosocial risk factors and successful aging in C. Aldwin, C. Park, & A. R. Spiro (Eds.). Handbook of Health Psychology and Aging, 30-53.
Rights Management (c) Guilford Press. Reprinted with permission of The Guilford Press.Berg, C. A., Smith, T. W., Allen, N., & Pearce, G. (2007). Developmental approach to psychosocial risk factors and successful aging in C. Aldwin, C. Park, & A. R. Spiro (Eds.). Handbook of Health Psychology and Aging, 30-53.
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