2012, Vol.25, No.1

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.67

pISSN : 1229-0718 / eISSN : 2671-6542
https://journal.kci.go.kr/baldal

This study examined differences in aging anxiety and in relationships between aging and, trait anxiety and 5-factor personality traits according to age and sex and relative effects of 5-factor personality traits on aging anxiety with college students and older adults. Results revealed college students had higher fear of old people than older adults, female had higher fear of physical appearance than male,and female older adults had highest fear of loss followed male older ones, female and male college students. College students and older adults indicated different patterns in relationships between aging and traits anxiety. Also 4 dimensions of aging anxiety were differentially related to personality traits in all participants. On the whole college students' aging anxiety tended to increase as having lower openness to experience and higher neuroticism, while older adults' aging anxiety to increase as having higher neuroticism, lower openness to experience and higher trait anxiety.

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of family relations as a source of meaning of life and self-transcendence value on successful aging in the elders of Korea. The result was as follows:First, Korean elders considered that family relations as the most important domain from the 11domains suggested. Physical and mental health were also regarded as critical domains including psychological well-being. Second, the different results were reported between the group with high intimacy family relations and the group with relatively lower family relations in terms of successful aging. Lastly, this study analyzed the influential elements and factors in successful aging based on multiple regressions. This study concluded that family relations and self-transcendence value have a significant impact on successful aging.

The present study examined the ability to encode information about absolute size and its relation to executive functioning (EF). In particular, we explored whether the ability to inhibit relational information is critical in encoding size information. For this purpose, 4-, 6-,and 8-year-olds were given an absolute size task (Duffy, Huttenlocher, & Levine, 2005a)and a Flanker task. Our results showed that the ability to encode absolute size improves significantly between 4 and 8 years of age. The most prevalent type of error was relative error, which was significantly reduced when they reached age 8. There was also a significant correlation in all age groups between performance on the two tasks. Furthermore,we found a significant relationship between the amount of relative error and performance in the third block of the Flanker task in 4-year-olds. These findings indicate that executive function is critical in encoding absolute size in early childhood.