Age/Cohort Differences in Aspects of the Self-System

• Main Author: Hanselka, Larry L. (Larry Lynn)
• Other Authors: Hayslip, Bert
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: University of North Texas 1994
• Subjects: self; psychology; personality; Self-perception.; Self-perception in old age.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279210/

Age/cohort differences in several aspects of the self-system were investigated utilizing a sentence completion paradigm. Eighty-eight adults over age sixty and one hundred eight adults under age forty served as subjects. Subjects were asked to complete 30 self-referent sentence stems which were pre-structured to elicit information from the self-system. Responses were subjected to a content analysis utilizing a coding system which contained concepts used by subjects in their self-representations. Contents were coded for dimensions conceptually related to Physical Health, Autonomy, Self-Evaluation, Depression, Spirituality, and Altruism. Frequencies of codings were counted and subjected to statistical analysis for performing age group comparisons.