During the last decade, as researchers started to acknowledge that aging is a heterogeneous process with many different pathways that may all result in the maintenance of life satisfaction in advanced age, emphasis has switched from specifying criteria of successful aging to outlining the strategies involved in this process. The SOC-model appears to be an important model with the potential to explain and predict successful aging in different types of people and situations. Although SOC strategies contribute to successful aging, it becomes increasingly difficult to engage in these activities due to the fact that resources decline in old age. In the present article, we have argued that proactive coping, that is, attempting to prevent potential stressors that are the cause of this decrease in resources, may be a valuable strategy as well, albeit one that has hardly been addressed in models of successful aging. By anticipating potential stressors at an early stage, proactive coping may conserve resources important for optimization and compensation and, therefore, postpone disengagement from valuable personal goals, the attainment of which contributes to subjective well-being.
During the last decade, as researchers started to acknowledge that aging is a heterogeneous process with many different pathways that may all result in the maintenance of life satisfaction in advanced age, emphasis has switched from specifying criteria of successful aging to outlining the strategies involved in this process. The SOC-model appears to be an important model with the potential to explain and predict successful aging in different types of people and situations. Although SOC strategies contribute to successful aging, it becomes increasingly difficult to engage in these activities due to the fact that resources decline in old age. In the present article, we have argued that proactive coping, that is, attempting to prevent potential stressors that are the cause of this decrease in resources, may be a valuable strategy as well, albeit one that has hardly been addressed in models of successful aging. By anticipating potential stressors at an early stage, proactive coping may conserve resources important for optimization and compensation and, therefore, postpone disengagement from valuable personal goals, the attainment of which contributes to subjective well-being.
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