old age

• Older adults


  • Tend to make the most of their abilities
  • Often exploit gains in one area to offset declines in another
• Changes in older adults

  • Increases in agreeableness, self-confidence, warmth, emotional stability, and conscientiousness
  • Declines in neuroticism, social vitality, and openness to experience
• Older adults


  Tend to seek out activities and people that give them emotional gratification
• Older adults


  Tend to use more emotion-focused coping than younger people
• Older adults are more religious than younger adults
• Older adults


  • Conserve resources by selecting meaningful goals
  • Optimize the resources they have to achieve it
  • Compensate for the losses by using resources in alternative ways to achieve their goals