成长指数甚至能预测……Cicchetti, Dante, .“AdaptiveCopingUnderConditionsofExtremeStress: MultilevelInfluencesontheDeterminantsofResilienceinMaltreatedChildren.” NewDirectionsforChildandAdolescentDevelopment2009, no.124(2009): 47–, seeDweck, : , 2006.
比如，巴尔的摩老龄化纵向研究……Levy, BeccaR., , , andLuigiFerrucci.“AgeStereotypesHeldEarlierinLifePredictCardiovascularEventsinLaterLife.” PsychologicalScience20, no.3(2009): 296–98.
在一项研究中……那些……人……Levy, BeccaR., , JeanineMay,.“PhysicalRecoveryAfterAcuteMyocardialInfarction: PositiveAgeSelf-StereotypesasaResource.” InternationalJournalofAgingandHumanDevelopment62,no.4 (2006): 285–301.
在另一项研究中，积极……Levy, BeccaR., , , .“AssociationBetweenPositiveAgeStereotypesandRecoveryfromDisabilityinOlderPersons.” JAMA308, no.19 (2012): 1972–73.
顺带说一句，如果这些发现……TheworkofStanfordpsychologistLauraCarstensendemonstratesthatpeoplegethappierastheygrowolder, , seeCarstensen, LauraL., BulentTuran, SusanneScheibe, NilamRam, HalErsner-Hershfield, -Larkin, , .“EmotionalExperienceImproveswithAge: EvidenceBasedonOver10YearsofExperienceSampling.” PsychologyandAging26, no.1(2011): 21–33.
举例来说，一项……干预措施……Wolff, JuliaK., , , andSusanneWurm.“WhatDoTargetingPositiveViewsonAgingAddtoaPhysicalActivityInterventioninOlderAdults? ResultsfromaRandomisedControlledTrial.” PsychologyandHealth (aheadofprint, 2014): 1–18.
德国老年研究中心……Wurm, Susanne, , , , andBenjaminSchüz.“HowDoNegativeSelf-PerceptionsofAgingBecomeaSelf-FulfillingProphecy?” PsychologyandAging28, no.4 (2013): 1088–97.
