This review addresses conceptual and empirical research about how individual agency and
motivation influences development during adulthood and old age. The major life-span …

This article had four goals. First, the authors identified a set of general challenges and
questions that a life-span theory of development should address. Second, they presented a …

Social media influencers are online celebrities who exhibit their personal lives to many
followers via social media. Media studies have analyzed influencers' display of the luxurious …

Personal views on aging, such as age stereotypes and subjective aging, can affect various
health outcomes in later life. For the past 20 years or so, a large body of experimental and …

Statistics is one of the most practical and essential courses that you will take, and a primary
goal of this popular text is to make the task of learning statistics as simple as possible …

Since its introduction in 1985, the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS; Diener, Emmons,
Larsen, & Griffin,) has been heavily used as a measure of the life satisfaction component of …

Satisfaction with one's own aging and feeling young are indicators of positive well-being in
late life. Using 16-year longitudinal data from participants of the Berlin Aging Study (PB …

Objectives. The present study is an attempt to experimentally induce a younger subjective
age among older adults and to test whether they show better physical functioning when they …

Social comparisons on social networking sites can be problematic for some individuals.
However, this has never been examined in a parenting context, where the pressure for …

Ageing of the population in western societies and the rising costs of health and social care
are refocusing health policy on health promotion and disability prevention among older …