Investigating how perception of time left in life effects information processing and goal orientated behaviours in older adults : using socioemotional selectivity theory
Background/Aims: Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST) is an emerging theory of lifespan development, implicating adaptive motivational processes with ageing. SST maintains that age is inherently linked with future time perspective (FTP). It argues that when people perceive time in life as expansi...
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University of Edinburgh
2011
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739054 |