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Critical Aspirations from Studies of Successful Aging

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2011, 24(3), pp.35-54
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

An Jeong Shin 1 CHONG,YOUNG-SOOK 1 정여진 2 Seo, Su-Gyun 1 Cooney, T. M. 3

1부산대학교
2울산대학교
3Univ. of Missouri-Columbia

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ABSTRACT

This study identified the problems of successful aging studies in western and Korean cultures through 79 researches in last 20 years. First, there was no academic agreement about successful aging concept among researches. Therefore successful aging was accessed with various different components and there was mixed using of components and influential factors of successful aging in diverse empirical studies. Second, there were differences on rate of elderly’s report as successful aging because of the disagreement of what was successful aging. In addition, there was no consideration about the different characteristics within the elderly group. Lastly, this study compared the components and influential factors of successful aging between two different cultures. Based on the results, cultural influences on conceptualization of successful aging was discussed and necessity of re-conceptualization of aging well in terms of Korean culture was emphasized.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.