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In the context of some personal control (mastery) theories (e.g. Heckhausen and Schultz, 1995 ; Gutmann, 1964), primary, secondary and tertiary personal control of development were investigated among subjects in three transitional periods of life (Levinson et al, 1978). Results confirmed the expectation that primary control decrease while secondary control increase with age. Tertiary control was the same in all transitional periods. There were some differences in contribution of predictors of primary control in early, middle and late period of transition. From the group of variables relating to personality traits, optimism proved a good predictor of primary control in young and middle aged, while in old people who have the lowest primary control, none of personality traits proved predictive. The importance of goals related to knowledge and competence (GKC) was a significant predictor in all three ages. |
