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Lighter as We Go: Virtues, Character Strengths, and Aging

Lighter as We Go: Virtues, Character Strengths, and Aging

Greenstein, Mindy
Holland, Jimmie

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General Psychology

Publisher Price: $23.99

ISBN10: 0190693797
ISBN13: 9780190693794
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 1 2018
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes. And there is something to worry about, though it isn't what you'd expect: research shows that having a bad attitude toward aging when we're young is associated with poorer health when we're older.

These worries tend to peak in midlife; but in Lighter as We Go, Mindy Greenstein and Jimmie Holland show us that, contrary to common wisdom, our sense of well-being actually increases with our age--often even in the presence of illness or disability. For the first time, Greenstein and Holland--on a joint venture between an 85 year-old and a fifty year-old--explore positive psychology concepts of character strengths and virtues to unveil how and why, through the course of a lifetime, we learn who we are as we go. Drawing from the authors' own personal, intergenerational friendship, as well as a broad array of research from many different areas--including social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, humanities, psychiatry, and gerontology--Lighter as We Go introduces compassion, justice, community, and culture to help calm our cascading fears of aging.

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