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1 online resource (315 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; One BACKGROUND AND NATURE OF THE STUDY; Concepts, Measurements, and Theories of Successful Aging; Conceptualization Developed in the Present Study; Social Systems of Individual Actors; Structural Properties; Functional Properties; One Approach to a Definition of Successful Aging; Styles of Life; The Reliability of the Judgments; Two WORLD OF WORK; The Most Successful Agers; The Less Successful Agers; The Least Successful Agers; Analysis; Three FAMILISM; The Most Successful Agers; The Less Successful Agers |
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The Least Successful AgersA Less Variant Form of Familism; Analysis; Four LIVING ALONE; The Most Successful Agers; The Less Successful Agers; The Least Successful Agers; Analysis; Five COUPLEHOOD; The Most Successful Agers; The Less Successful Agers; The Least Successful Agers; Analysis; Six EASING THROUGH LIFE WITH MINIMAL INVOLVEMENT; The Most Successful Agers; The Less Successful Agers; The Least Successful Agers; Analysis; Seven LIVING FULLY; The Most Successful Agers; The Less Successful Agers; The Least Successful Agers; Analysis; Eight SUCCESS AND STYLE; The Most Successful Agers |
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The Least Successful AgersRelations Between Styles of Life; Nine SOME RELATED OBSERVATIONS; Health and Well-Being in the Theory of Action; Retirement and the Theory of Action; Rural-Urban Contrasts in Relation to Familism; Implications for the Process of Disengagement; Ten STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS; The Distribution by Success and Style; Statistical Findings in Relation to Style; Statistical Findings in Relation to Success; Combinations of Variables; Personality and Patterns; Summary of Statistical Findings; Conclusions |
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Appendix One GENERAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE KANSAS CITY STUDY OF ADULT LIFEAppendix Two RANK ORDER OF SUCCESSFUL AGING BY STYLE; World of Work; Familism; Living Alone; Couplehood; Easing Through Life With Minimal Involvement; Living Fully; Index; Index of Case Histories |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Older people -- Psychology.
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Older people -- Psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Richard A
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Wirths, Claudine G
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| ISBN |
9781351508452 |
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1351508458 |
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