The relationship between disease and good health has received relatively little attention in
mental health. Resilience can be viewed as a defence mechanism, which enables people to …

Despite extensive evidence that time perspective is associated with a range of important
outcomes across a variety of life domains (eg, health, education, wealth), the question of …

Background A pandemic is a very stressful event, especially for highly vulnerable people
(eg, older adults). The purpose of the current study was to investigate the main and …

We examined the life-span development of self-esteem and tested whether self-esteem
influences the development of important life outcomes, including relationship satisfaction …

Importance Long-term longitudinal studies are needed to delineate the trajectory of
depressive symptoms across adulthood and to individuate factors that may contribute to …

By 2050, the number of people in Australia aged over 85 is expected to quadruple. Yet, from
a socio-psychological research perspective, little is known about the experiences of people …

Objective No study has examined the diagnostic validity of the Center for Epidemiologic
Studies Depression Scale (CES‐D) in the Chinese elderly. This study aims to determine …

Successful aging is an important concept, and one that has been the subject of much
research. During the last 15 years, the emphasis of this research has shifted from …

This chapter highlights that resilience is a central concept for both the life span perspective
on human development and for developmental psychopathology. It conveys the idea that …

We assessed conjoint trajectories of cognitive decline and social relations over 7 years on a
representative sample of community-dwelling elderly persons. We analyzed data using …