[Assessment of independence and learning increment in own activities of living in aging people].
According to the Sève (1972) personality is a time structure consisting of four dimensions: autonomous and alienated activities with or without learning increment. In the course of a biography this structure changes in a predictable way. 13 lower and 11 upper class members with an average age of 75 1/2 years estimated the time distribution in these four dimensions of activities for their own life phases of childhood, professional education, professional life and after leaving professional life. Their estimates differed from Sève's hypothetical predictions with the exception of those for childhood. There were, however, significant differences between the estimates of lower and upper class members. The former tended more in the direction of Sève's hypotheses. The same activities were also assessed by 6 raters as to degree of alienation and learning potential. Their estimates approximated Sève's hypothetical predictions either partially, for the phase of professional education, or fully for professional life and the time after it but failed them for childhood by overestimating the amount of alienated activities.
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012647:Self-Assessment
Zur Einschätzung von Unabhängigkeit und Lerngewinn in Tätigkeiten des eigenen Lebens durch alternde Menschen.