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H Thomae

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[Reactions to health stress in middle and advanced adulthood].

Psychological reactions and their 'hierarchies' regarding the own health status were analysed in a sample of 81 survivors of the Bonn Longitudinal Study on Aging and in different clinical samples (patients suffering from hemophilia, renal failure, heart infarction, stroke, and schizophrenia). The longitudinal analysis of the health-related response hierarchy points to a high degree of consistency of these reactions over time. Comparing the response hierarchies of the aged sample as related to different areas of life stress (such as housing, income, family, health problems), the author finds a high degree of discriminative competence in coping with stress. The same is true for the response hierarchies of the patient groups. This high degree of situation-specific selectivity in patterns of responses to chronical disease should be studied more intensively from theoretical as well as clinical-practical points of view.

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Research on aging in behavioral sciences in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The paper reports on cross-sectional and longitudinal studies on psychological, sociological, as well as physical aspects of aging completed or going on in the Federal Republic of Germany. Most of these studies are referring to community aged and point to the complex conditions of consistency and change in cognitive functioning and personality adjustment during the middle and later years. They stress the high degree of interindividual variability of the aging process and ask for a differential instead of a normative gerontology.

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[Aging and life-history: aims and approaches to a life-span oriented gerontology].

The paper discusses the contributions of American theoretical and empirical approaches in life span developmental psychology to the understand of aging in a life-span frame of reference. The main part of the paper consists of a report on longitudinal as well as biographical studies on psychological and social development in adolescence, middle, and late adulthood which started at the Psychology Department of the University of Bonn in 1952 and are continued into the 80's. These studies point to close relationships between the social and psychological conditions in earlier and later periods of life and stress the relevance of promoting not only mental, but also social and effective-emotional competence for the coping with crisis situation in old age.

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Trust, social support, and relying on others. A contribution to the interface between behavioral and social gerontology.

Studies on the role of the response class "relying on others" in coping with crises and problems in childhood, adolescence, early, middle, and late adulthood, and with situations like grief or dependency point to important psychological aspects in the social support process. These are related especially to the construct of trust which deserves more attention in Behavioral as well as in Social Gerontology.

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[Accepting stress. A contribution to research in coping].

A review of numerous studies on coping with stress points to the important role of the response class "accepting a stressful situation" in the daily lives of healthy persons and for patients coping with chronic disease and disability. For some extreme situations this response class is the only way to attain some affective balance and an adequate selection of adjustment processes. It is recommended that research on coping should not only focus on more or less complex response structures, but also on the analysis of specific response classes ("ways of coping").

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[The Bonn Gerontologic Longitudinal Study (BOLSA)].

The Bonn Longitudinal Study on Aging (BOLSA) was started in 1965 with two cohorts born in the years 1890-95 and 1900-05. Survivors were followed for 15, respectively, 19 years. BOLSA data gives evidence for a high degree of consistency in different patterns of aging as defined by health, cognitive and social competence, and personality. This interindividual variability is linked with socioeconomic status, gender, and other social variables as well as with coping styles. Psychosocial variables also turned out to be significant predictors of longevity. BOLSA findings point to the complexity of the process of aging which asks for a multi-dimensional approach. The list of references includes many English-language publications by the BOLSA staff.

Adaptation, Psychological↗