Thomae H
Z Gerontol. 1980 Sep-Oct;13(5):421-32.
The paper discusses the contributions of American theoretical and empirical approaches in life span developmental psychology to the understand of aging in a life-span frame of reference. The main part of the paper consists of a report on longitudinal as well as biographical studies on psychological and social development in adolescence, middle, and late adulthood which started at the Psychology Department of the University of Bonn in 1952 and are continued into the 80's. These studies point to close relationships between the social and psychological conditions in earlier and later periods of life and stress the relevance of promoting not only mental, but also social and effective-emotional competence for the coping with crisis situation in old age.
本文讨论了美国在毕生发展心理学中理论和实证方法对在毕生参照框架下理解衰老的贡献。本文的主要部分是一份关于青少年、中年和老年心理与社会发展的纵向及传记式研究报告，这些研究于1952年在波恩大学心理学系启动，并持续到80年代。这些研究指出了生命早期和晚期社会与心理状况之间的紧密关系，并强调不仅要促进心理能力，还要促进社会和有效情感能力对于应对老年危机情况的相关性。
