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Personality and aging: Modes of coping and the meaning of stress

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Psychologie der Lebensalter

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Personality and aging have been two aspects of Thomae’s main field of scientific interest, and these will be discussed in this presentation. In the introduction, we approach this issue from a specific point of view, coping and aging, but in the concluding section, we will enlarge the discussion to cover personality and aging in general. The limitations set by a short chapter do not allow us to review the personality and aging literature as a whole. The interested reader is referred to excellent, earlier reviews by Neugarten (34), Thomae (47, 51) Bengtson et al (2), and Kogan (23), as well as a forthcoming review by Ruth and Coleman (39).

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Ruth, JE., Birren, J.E. (1995). Personality and aging: Modes of coping and the meaning of stress. In: Kruse, A., Schmitz-Scherzer, R. (eds) Psychologie der Lebensalter. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87993-7_23

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