TY - JOUR
T1 - Engagement in Adulthood
T2 - Perceptions and Participation in Daily Activities
AU - Parisi, Jeanine M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported through the National Institute on Aging (R03 AG024551 and R01 AG029475 to Elizabeth Stine-Morrow) and the Roybal Center for Healthy Minds (P30 AG023101 to Jeanine Parisi). Additional support was obtained through dissertation research awards granted to Jeanine Parisi by the American Psychological Association and the Bureau of Educational Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Parisi is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is supported by a National Institute of Mental Health Prevention Research Training Grant (T-32 MH018834; Nicholas Ialongo, Principal Investigator).
PY - 2010/1
Y1 - 2010/1
N2 - The present research explores how older adults experience daily activities through an application of the Day Reconstruction Method (Kahneman, Kreuger, Schakade, Schwartz, & Stone, 2004). Throughout the course of the day, individuals (N = 192, M = 72 years) spent an average of 14.50 hours engaged in a variety of activities. Individual differences in activity patterns could be partly explained by age and educational attainment. The oldest individuals (age 81-92) perceived lower levels of competence when engaging in daily activities. Regardless of age, however, individuals with greater educational attainment allocated more time and felt more intellectually challenged in their daily experiences.
AB - The present research explores how older adults experience daily activities through an application of the Day Reconstruction Method (Kahneman, Kreuger, Schakade, Schwartz, & Stone, 2004). Throughout the course of the day, individuals (N = 192, M = 72 years) spent an average of 14.50 hours engaged in a variety of activities. Individual differences in activity patterns could be partly explained by age and educational attainment. The oldest individuals (age 81-92) perceived lower levels of competence when engaging in daily activities. Regardless of age, however, individuals with greater educational attainment allocated more time and felt more intellectually challenged in their daily experiences.
KW - Activity patterns
KW - Adulthood
KW - Aging
KW - Daily experiences
KW - Engagement
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U2 - 10.1080/01924780903552246
DO - 10.1080/01924780903552246
M3 - Article
C2 - 22072842
AN - SCOPUS:77949317685
VL - 34
SP - 1
EP - 16
JO - Activities, Adaptation and Aging
JF - Activities, Adaptation and Aging
SN - 0192-4788
IS - 1
ER -