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  • Goal pursuits and mental health in later life

    Creator:
    Bolkan, Cory R.
    Abstract:
    Grounded in life span theory, this study explored how personal goals (as measured by possible selves) related to depressive symptoms in older adults. Possible selves represent individuals' ideas of what they would like to become (hoped-for selves) and what they are afraid of becoming (feared selves). Possible selves are also...
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    which goal domains people focus on for optimizing successful outcomes. For example, if older adults

  • Dynamic linkages of personality and health : the effect of traits and states in predicting health-goal progress

    Creator:
    Choun, Soyoung
    Abstract:
    Optimal aging is strongly related to personality factors along with health-behavior habits. Personality has played a key role in understanding the interactions between human behavior and the environment and as a vital predictor in determining health outcomes of individuals. Although previous studies have found links between personality traits and health,...
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    as people move from mid-life to later life (Hooker, 1992). For older adults in particular, the