Susan Krauss Whitbourne is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of numerous publications including Adult Development and Aging: Biopsychosocial Perspectives (4th ed., Wiley, 2011, with S. B. Whitbourne), Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders (6th ed., with R. P. Halgin, 2009), and The Search for Fulfillment (2010). Martin J. Sliwinski is a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and director of the Center for Healthy Aging at The Pennsylvania State University. He has written extensively on the relationship of stress and disease to health, emotional well-being, and cognitive function across the adult lifespan.

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• Notes on Contributors ixPreface xviiSusan Krauss Whitbourne and Martin J. SliwinskiPart I Foundations1 Theoretical Perspectives: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Positive Aging 3Elliot M. Friedman and Carol D. Ryff2 Demography of Aging: Behavioral and Social Implications 25Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Stacey B. Whitbourne3 Late Life: A Venue for Studying the Mechanisms by Which Contextual Factors Influence Individual Development 49Denis Gerstorf and Nilam Ram4 Methodological Issues in Research on Adult Development and Aging 72Scott M. Hofer, Philippe Rast, and Andrea M. PiccininPart II Physical Changes and Health5 Physical Exercise and Health 97Leslie I. Katzel and Gregory M. Steinbrenner6 Behavioral Stability and Change in Health Across the Adult Life Cycle 118Ilene C. Siegler and Adam DaveyPart III Cognition7 Processing Speed 135Judith Dirk and Florian Schmiedek8 Working Memory 154David P. McCabe and Vanessa M. Loaiza9 Memory and Aging 174Brent J. Small, Kerri S. Rawson, Sarah Eisel, and Cathy L. McEvoy10 Everyday Cognition 190Jason C. AllairePart IV Personality11 Personality Development in Adulthood 211Nicky J. Newton and Abigail J. Stewart12 Socioemotional Perspectives on Adult Development 236Jennifer Tehan Stanley and Derek M. Isaacowitz13 Personality and Aging: Cognitive Perspectives and Processes 254Eileen Kranz Graham and Margie E. LachmanPart V Abnormal Aging14 Affective Disorders and Age: The View Through a Developmental Lens 275Jennifer R. Piazza and Susan Turk Charles15 Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias 293Joshua R. Steinerman and Richard B. Lipton16 Personality Disorders in Later Life 312Daniel L. Segal, Richard Zweig, and Victor Molinari17 Assessment of Older Adults 331Christine E. Gould, Barry A. Edelstein, and Lindsay A. GerolimatosPart VI Social Processes18 Self-Regulation and Social Cognition in Adulthood: The Gyroscope of Personality 357Cory Bolkan and Karen Hooker19 Partners and Friends in Adulthood 381Rosemary Blieszner and Karen A. Roberto20 Intergenerational Relationships and Aging 399Kira S. Birditt and Elvina Wardjiman21 Retirement: An Adult Development Perspective 416Mo WangPart VII Well-Being and Creativity22 Effects of Remaining Time for Psychological Well-Being and Cognition 433Boo Johansson and Anne Ingeborg Berg23 Successful Aging 459Colin A. Depp, Ipsit V. Vahia, and Dilip V. Jeste24 Creative Productivity and Aging: An Age Decrement – or Not? 477Dean Keith SimontonAuthor Index 497Subject Index 527