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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc279210 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Hanselka, Larry L. (Larry Lynn) |
| Contributors | Hayslip, Bert, Guarnaccia, Charles Anthony, Keller, M. Jean, Schneider, Lawrence J. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | v, 182 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Hanselka, Larry L. (Larry Lynn) |
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