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C B Freitag
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Achievement, aggression, and perceived adult age stages.
A questionnaire was administered to 173 male and female undergraduates to contrast their perceptions of the transition periods of young, middle age, and old adulthood stages of aging. A comparison of the perceived stages was then made with the personality dimensions of achievement and aggression. A 2 X 2 X 3 analysis of variance was computed for sex of S, sex of the perceived individual, and three adult stages. In addition, coefficients of correlation were obtained for 24 variables. The analysis of variance resulted in finding several significant main effects and interactions. Male judged the transition of age periods earlier than females for young and middle age adults, and females were perceived as entering the stage of old age at an earlier date than males. A directionality of establishing earlier transition ages by high scorers on the achievement dimension was also noted.
A comparison of externality, anxiety, and life satisfaction in two aged populations.
An attempt was made to find the relationship between locus of control, anxiety, and life satisfaction and to assess the impact of environmental factors upon these variables in two distinct elderly populations (20 nursing home residents and 20 active elderly). It was hypothesized that internality would be positively correlated with low anxiety and high life satisfaction and that the active elderly group would score higher on internality and life satisfaction and lower on anxiety than the nursing home group. Assessment instruments included a revision of Rotter's I-E Scale, questions from certain MMPI scales, and a life satisfaction questionnaire. Results showed significant correlations between the three measures of locus control, anxiety, and life satisfaction in the nursing home group but not in the active elderly group. As predicted, the active elderly were more internal (p less than .05), showed higher life satisfaction (p less than .01), and reported less anxiety (p less than .01) than the nursing home group.
Correlational study of death anxiety, general anxiety and locus of control.
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