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Autor/inn/en | Voss, Peggy; Kornadt, Anna E.; Rothermund, Klaus |
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Titel | Getting What You Expect? Future Self-Views Predict the Valence of Life Events |
Quelle | In: Developmental Psychology, 53 (2017) 3, S.567-580 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0012-1649 |
DOI | 10.1037/dev0000285 |
Schlagwörter | Aging (Individuals); Self Concept; Futures (of Society); Experience; Longitudinal Studies; Adults; Surveys; Individual Differences; Adult Development; Foreign Countries; Prediction; Germany |
Abstract | Views on aging have been shown to predict the occurrence of events related to physical health in previous studies. Extending these findings, we investigated the relation between aging-related future self-views and life events in a longitudinal study across a range of different life domains. Participants (N = 593, age range 30-80 years at t[subscript 1]) completed a survey at 2 measurement occasions that were separated by a 4-year interval (t[subscript 1]: 2009, t[subscript 2]: 2013), providing information on domain-specific future self-views as well as on life events that had occurred in the respective domains in-between the 2 measurement occasions. Future self-views measured at t1 predicted the occurrence of subsequent life events corresponding in valence: Participants with more positive (negative) future self-views in a domain reported relatively more positive (negative) life events in the respective domain. In addition, individual differences in future self-views were reinforced by life events that were consistent with these self-views. Accordingly, future self-views can be interpreted in terms of self-fulfilling prophecies: They are related to the likelihood of encountering and remembering life events that further confirm the aging-related future self-views from which they originate. Our study demonstrates the importance of future self-views on aging for development-related outcomes that have an especially high impact on peoples' lives. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2020/1/01 |