Creativity and self-actualization in the aging personality.
Twenty-five residents (sixty-nine to ninety-three years old) of two Israeli homes for the elderly were investigated in order to see if there was a correlation between the creative attitude (self-actualizing personality) and the way of coping with the process of aging and attitude toward death. The results showed that the more creative-actualizing a personality, the better the coping with aging phenomena and the less denial of death.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D001290:Attitude; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D012649:Self Concept; D012723:Sex