Middle Aging in Women: Patterns of Personality Change from the 30s to the 50s
dc.contributor.author | Stewart, Abigail J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ostrove, Joan M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Helson, Ravenna | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T15:04:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T15:04:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Stewart, Abigail J.; Ostrove, Joan M.; Helson, Ravenna; (2001). "Middle Aging in Women: Patterns of Personality Change from the 30s to the 50s." Journal of Adult Development 8(1): 23-37. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44636> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1068-0667 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-3440 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44636 | |
dc.description.abstract | This three-sample study focused on changes in four key features of women's personalities (identity, generativity, confident power, and concern about aging) over the course of middle age. Based on women's retrospective and concurrent feelings about their lives in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, scales were developed and validated for the four themes. We found that identity certainty, generativity, confident power, and concern about aging all were experienced as more prominent in middle age (the 40s) than in early adulthood (the 30s). We also found that these elements of personality were rated even higher in the 50s than the 40s. Scores seemed to be a function of age more than historical period or particular experiences in social roles. Scores on identity certainty, generativity, and confident power were positively related to well-being, while concern about aging was negatively related to well-being. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Generativity | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Middle Age | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Personality Development | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Clinical Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Aging | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Developmental Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cognitive Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Women | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Identity | en_US |
dc.title | Middle Aging in Women: Patterns of Personality Change from the 30s to the 50s | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | West European Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages and Cultures | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Work | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Latin American and Caribbean Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Germanic Languages and Literature | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Communications | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, 460 West Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-1092 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Psychology, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55101 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44636/1/10804_2004_Article_228798.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026445704288 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Adult Development | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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