PSY 402 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Psychological Resilience, Episodic Memory, Life Satisfaction
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Psy402 chapter 14 successful aging // textbook notes. Sexuality is another component of successful aging that is known to play a role in overall health and well-being in the mid-life and later years. The overall scores of the women of the successful agin measures were related to sexual saisfacion, but not related to actual sexual acivity. Actual physical health, then, appears to be less important in predicing successful aging, even in an area of funcioning as important to overall well-being as sexuality. In a research study, health behaviours, paricularly physical exercise, predicted successful aging to an even greater extent than did social support or social contact. Many older adults regard cogniive funcioning as central to their idenity. In keeping with this focus then, successful cogniive aging can be deined as cogniive performance that is above the average for an individual"s age group as objecively measured.
