title: [Achievement concepts, mental status and psychological stability of the elderly].
abstract: Considerations within a broader theoretical framework are presented that relate psychic well-being and psychic stability of both older and younger persons to their self-concepts of achievement and ability: The better the "psychic well-being" and the higher the degree of "psychic stability", the more "favourable" or "positive", i.e. with more socially desired characteristics, are the various self-concepts of achievement and ability of both younger and older individuals. 87 psychiatric patients with a diagnosis of "depression", considered a population with lower levels in respect of "psychic stability" and "psychic well-being", had been compared to a sample group without psychiatric problems. Initial evaluations of available empirical findings, i.e. the data for three differentiated self-concepts of achievement and ability and a self-concept of sensitivity and general emotional state, obtained from a total of 174 subjects (91 aged 50-81, 83 aged 23-49), have failed to falsify our hypotheses but have, rather, substantiated them. The 87 psychiatric subjects from various age groups had significantly less "favourable" self-concepts of achievement and ability and a significantly less "positive" self-concept of sensitivity and general emotional state than the subjects in the parallel sample.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D001076:Aptitude; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004328:Drive; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Leistungskonzepte, Befinden und psychische Stabilität älterer Menschen.