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Perceived control over development and subjective well-being: differential benefits across adulthoodF R Lang
Department of Education, Homboldt Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Arts IV, Germany
J Pers Soc Psychol 81:509-23. 2001..Findings point to adaptive adjustments of control perceptions to age-related actual control potentials across adulthood...
Regulation of social relationships in later adulthoodF R Lang
Department of Education, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Germany
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 56:P321-6. 2001..The regulation of social relationships is proposed as a promising venue for further research in this field that may also reflect key issues in social, emotional, and cognitive aging...
Time counts: future time perspective, goals, and social relationshipsFrieder R Lang
Department of Education, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Psychol Aging 17:125-39. 2002..Findings underscore the importance of FTP in the self-regulation of social relationships and the subjective experience associated with them...
Adapting to aging losses: do resources facilitate strategies of selection, compensation, and optimization in everyday functioning?Frieder R Lang
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 57:P501-9. 2002..Overall, findings suggest a greater use of selection, compensation, and optimization strategies in everyday functioning among resource-rich older adults as compared with resource-poor older adults...
Blood is thicker than water: kinship orientation across adulthoodFranz J Neyer
Institut fur Psychologie, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Germany
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:310-21. 2003..The authors discuss subjective closeness as 1 proximate cue to kinship, and suggest nepotistic adaptations as powerful mechanisms in social relationships...
Self-construal moderates age differences in social network characteristicsDannii Y Yeung
Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Psychol Aging 23:222-6. 2008..These findings highlight the importance of examining the underlying mechanism rather than a particular pattern of SNC across cultures...
Desired lifetime and end-of-life desires across adulthood from 20 to 90: a dual-source information modelFrieder R Lang
Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 62:P268-76. 2007..Fourth, there is a high prevalence of a strong desire to control the "when and how" of one's death, although only 11% of the individuals completed a living will. Findings are consistent with the dual-source information model...
Cultural specificity of socioemotional selectivity: age differences in social network composition among Germans and Hong Kong ChineseHelene H Fung
Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chung Chi College, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 63:P156-64. 2008..We discuss the findings in terms of whether the socioemotional selectivity theory holds in both cultures...
