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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1026//0049-8637.35.1.49

Zusammenfassung. Bei einer Stichprobe von 808 Teilnehmern im Alter von 63 bis 86 Jahren wurden wahrgenommene Ressourcen in vier unterschiedlichen Bereichen (personale Handlungsressourcen, soziale und materielle Handlungsressourcen, lebensgeschichtliche Sinnressourcen, wert- und glaubensbezogene Sinnressourcen) erfaßt. Die Ressourcenbereiche zeigen deutliche und teilweise gleichsinnige Zusammenhänge mit Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen wie Extraversion oder wahrgenommene Kontrolle, aber gegenläufige Regressionen auf die Altersvariable: Im betrachteten Altersbereich sind Verluste in personalen Handlungsressourcen begleitet von einer zunehmenden Betonung sinnbezogener Ressourcen (religiöse und wertbezogene Bindungen, Lebensrückschau). Moderierte Regressionsanalysen zeigen darüber hinaus, daß sich das prädiktive Gewicht dieser Ressourcen für subjektive Lebensqualität und Wohlbefinden mit dem Alter ändert; die Moderatoreffekte geben Hinweise auf eine kompensatorische Beziehung zwischen Handlungsressourcen und Sinnressourcen.


Action resources and meaning resources: Developmental patterns and protective effects

Abstract. Perceived resources in four different domains (personal resources, social and material resources, biographical resources, religious and value-related resources) were assessed on a sample of 808 participants in the age range from 63 to 86 years. The resource domains show distinct and partly similar associations with personality traits such as extraversion or perceived control, but opposite regressions on age: Within the age-range studied, losses in personal action resources are accompanied by increases in meaning-related resources (religious and value commitments, life review). Moderated regression analyses furthermore indicate that the predictive weight of these resources for subjective life quality and well-being changes with age; moderating effects are suggestive of a compensatory relationship between ”action“ resources and ”meaning“ resources.

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