Selective Optimization with Compensation and Successful Aging : Narratives of Senior Fashion Models

Objectives: The purpose of this article is to evaluate the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention program to improve the health and social psychological outcomes for grandparents raising grandchildren using the theory of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (Baltes, P. B., & Baltes, M. M. (1990). Psychological perspectives on successful aging: The model of selective optimization with compensation. In P. B. Baltes & M. M. Baltes (Eds.), Successful aging: Perspectives from the behavioral sciences (pp. 1-34). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511665684.003). Methods: Fifty-two grandparents were randomly assigned either to a 6-session solution-oriented goal-setting program or to a waiting list control condition who subsequently received the intervention. Results: Grandparents in the intervention group, in comparison to the waiting list control group, reduced their level of depression, improved their parental efficacy, overall psychosocial adjustment, and increased their ability to choose effective goals. For the most part, findings were replicated in the waiting list control analyses. Discussion: While these findings are consistent with previous studies using psychosocial interventions with parents and grandparent caregivers, they also provide support for strength-based proactive behavioral approaches to improve the quality of life of grandparent caregivers.

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Bringing Successful Aging Theories to Occupational Practice: Is Selective Optimization With Compensation Trainable?

Work Aging and Retirement ◽

10.1093/workar/wax033 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 161-174 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Andreas Müller ◽

Peter Angerer ◽

Annette Becker ◽

Melanie Gantner ◽

Harald Gündel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Successful Aging ◽

Selective Optimization With Compensation ◽

Aging Theories

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SENIOR MODELS: SUCCESSFUL AGING AND SERIOUS LEISURE

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igz038.2651 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. S723-S723

Author(s):

Sanghee Lee ◽

Jaeyoon Bae ◽

Sua Im ◽

Jinmoo Heo

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Successful Aging ◽

Leisure Activities ◽

Health Benefits ◽

Later Life ◽

Serious Leisure ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Selective Optimization With Compensation ◽

Meaningful Experiences

Abstract Serious leisure involves productive engagement and commitment in leisure activities. Literature shows that participating in serious leisure is associated with physical and mental health benefits of older adults. The behavior of senior modeling reflects serious leisure engagement that might offer a new insight useful in understanding successful aging. We explored the experience of senior models as a form of serious leisure. Using selective optimization with compensation as well as serious leisure framework, we attempted to identify how senior modeling activity contributes to successful aging. This study used in-depth interviews using purposeful sampling, and data were collected over two months in 2019. The participants were 31 senior models (average age = 67). The analysis resulted in three themes which contained characteristics of serious leisure as well as selective optimization with compensation: identifying new possibilities, serious engagement, and rewards from meaningful experiences. This study demonstrated various experiential characteristics associated with modeling as a form of serious leisure. Through selection, optimization, and compensation process, the participants seemed to achieve successful aging. We found that senior model experiences promoted active lifestyle, health benefits, and interpersonal relationships. To our knowledge, this is the first exploration of the experience of senior modeling activity. Consistent with existing literature, our study provides evidence of the significant role of serious leisure in later life. We suggest that senior modeling program holds promise as an effective way for older adults because it can be used as a self-care approach and community programs not only in Korea, but at various locations.

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Resilience and levels of reserve capacity in later adulthood: Perspectives from life-span theory

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579400006155 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 541-566 ◽

Cited By ~ 91

Author(s):

Ursula M. Staudinger ◽

Michael Marsiske ◽

Paul B. Baltes

Keyword(s):

Life Span ◽

Human Development ◽

Old Age ◽

Successful Aging ◽

Developmental Psychology ◽

Reserve Capacity ◽

Second Line ◽

First Line ◽

Selective Optimization With Compensation ◽

The Face

AbstractThe goal of this article is to explore the utility of integrating two lines of research on questions of modifiability or plasticity of human development. The first line, dealing with the notion of resilience, originated within the field of clinical developmental research. The second line, concerned with developmental reserve capacity, evolved primarily within the field of life-span developmental psychology. Resilience addresses questions of maintenance and recovery of adaptation in the face of stress. In addition, ideas about levels of reserve capacity, rooted in life-span developmental psychology, emphasize the potential for growth. A review of research in the areas of cognitive and self-related functioning provides evidence for resilience as well as developmental reserve capacity in adulthood and old age. It is argued that across the life span reserve capacity is increasingly allocated to resilience-related processes (maintenance of functioning and recovery from dysfunction) rather than growth. A model of successful aging is discussed which suggests that, by means of selective optimization with compensation, old age nevertheless continues to hold the potential for selective growth.

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