Quality of life (QOL) is increasingly being suggested as a crucial outcome variable for interventions that aim to maintain or improve health and psychological resources in old age. Currently, two main approaches to measuring QOL can be distinguished: (1) ...
Most of lifespan research focuses on age-related changes and plasticity as early markers of decline or performance improvements achieved through training interventions. This special issue on functional approaches to lifespan development focuses on age-...
One of the major theoretic frameworks through which human development is studied is a process-oriented model involving selection, optimization, and compensation. These three processes each provide accounts for methods by which gains are maximized and ...
Conceptualizations of psychological assessment and therapy with older adults rarely refer to more generalist lifespan developmental theories. Yet such frameworks can greatly assist experienced practitioners as well as trainees and those who may be new to ...
Where to find the sweet grapes? Developmental and motivational perspectives on adaptive functions of regretAbstract. Mechanisms and adaptive functions of regret are discussed in the context of cognitive dissonance theory, counterfactual thinking, and ...
Forgiveness and self-forgiveness across the lifespan: Current status and future directionsAbstract. Forgiveness contributes to coping with interpersonal hurts and transgressions. In the present overview, findings of studies which investigated the ...
Using data from the first wave of data collection in the Betula project, this research examined semantic memory performance in adulthood and old age (N = 1000). The Betula project is a 10-year longitudinal study on memory and health that involves ...
Abstract. Does personality stay stable after young adulthood or is there continued change throughout middle and later adulthood? For decades, this question has caused heated debate. Over the last couple of years, a consensus has emerged based on recent ...
Traditionally resilience is viewed as an important way of coping: Through resilience, an individual recovers from or avoids negative outcomes from burdensome conditions. In this paper, we argue that individual stability under significant adverse ...