Research on Life Satisfaction and Life Orientations in Late Adulthood

The paper presents results of a study on variations in the structure of life satisfaction and life-purpose orientations in individuals at various stages of aging. These results show that the structure of life-purpose orientations remains virtually unchanged during the late ontogenetic stage. However, people's belief in their own capacities that allows them to control events in their life increases with age, and so does their confidence in the very ability of one to control his/her life. The outcomes of this analysis can be of interest to specialists in the field of social psychology of aging (social psychologists, gerontopsy- chologists, and social workers).

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