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Concluding Comments on the Role of Individual Differences in Healthy Aging

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Personality and Healthy Aging in Adulthood

Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging ((Int. Perspect. Aging,volume 26))

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Research has made great progress in recent years to better understand how individual differences predict consequential healthy aging outcomes and why and when individual differences may matter in everday life. This final chapter integrates and discusses the contributions in this volume around three broad sections. The first section relates to “new” constructs beyond the Big Five personality traits. The second section discusses “new” assessment and analytical methods. Finally, the third section refers to “new” questions in the field of personality and healthy aging.

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  1. Department of Psychology and University Research Priority Program Dynamics of Healthy Aging, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Mathias Allemand

  2. Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA

    Patrick L. Hill

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    Mathias Allemand

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Allemand, M., Hill, P.L. (2020). Concluding Comments on the Role of Individual Differences in Healthy Aging. In: Hill, P.L., Allemand, M. (eds) Personality and Healthy Aging in Adulthood. International Perspectives on Aging, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32053-9_13

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