REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE PSICOLOGÍA 2002 - Volumen 34 – Nos. 1-2, pp. 17-27 PSICOLOGÍA DEL CICLO VITAL: HACIA UNA VISIÓN COMPREHENSIVA DE LA VIDA HUMANA ELISA DULCEY-RUIZ *1 Centro de Psicología Gerontológica – CEPSIGER, Bogota, Colombia Y CECILIA URIBE...
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REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE PSICOLOGÍA 2002 - Volumen 34 – Nos. 1-2, pp. 17-27 PSICOLOGÍA DEL CICLO VITAL: HACIA UNA VISIÓN COMPREHENSIVA DE LA VIDA HUMANA ELISA DULCEY-RUIZ *1 Centro de Psicología Gerontológica – CEPSIGER, Bogota, Colombia Y CECILIA URIBE VALDIVIESO ** Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia ABSTRACT Psychology of the life span is presented as a wider perspective than developmental psychology. Coherent with an integral vision of the life span course this psychology emphasizes the irrelevancy of age, permanent change, multidimensionality, and plasticity, as well as the importance of context and history. It refers to the aging process, to adulthood, old age, and death, in the frame of life span; It emphasizes possibilities related to successful aging, subjective well-being and wisdom, according with the point of view of positive psychology. They can be to obtained through lifelong learning, or education for the life. Key words: Life span psychology, aging, adulthood, age
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