The aging self : shifting from promoting gains to balancing losses

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Developmental changes in personal goal orientation from young to late adulthood: from striving for gains to maintenance and prevention of losses. (2006, methodology): “This integration of life span theory and the actiontheoretical perspective allows for an understanding of goal orientation as a dynamic construct that changes over time and with changing life situations (Freund & Ebner, 2005).”
Successful Aging as Management of Resources: The Role of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (2008, background): “Taken together, these considerations lead to the hypothesis of a shift from an orientation towards optimizing gains in young adulthood to an orientation towards maintenance or loss avoidance in later life (Freund & Ebner, 2005; Staudinger et al., 1995).”