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- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2003 American Psychological Association
- Pages
- 23 –35
- DOI
- 10.1037/10566-002
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Abstract
This chapter addresses how human strengths can be understood from the perspective of lifespan psychology. One of the emphases of the field of lifespan psychology has been the search for the optimal human mind or the optimal or ideal person. One exemplar of the notion of the optimal human mind is the idea of wisdom. Another exemplar is the search for optimal strategies of life management, one exemplar of which is the strategy of selective optimization with compensation, referred to as the SOC model. Using work on these two concepts as the guiding theoretical framework, we propose to view the orchestration of wisdom and SOC--the theoretical knowledge about the good and right life (wisdom) and its practical implementation (SOC)--as an expression and target of human strengths. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: Oct 12, 2004
Keywords: selective optimization with compensation; human strengths; lifespan psychology; wisdom