ABSTRACT
The next two chapters deal either directly or indirectly with the changing personalities, roles, and lifestyles of older Americans. Since the early 1950s psychologists and sociologists have addressed the problems of personality development and changes from quite different perspectives. The early psychologists, following Freudian thinking, tended to see personality as almost permanently formed by adulthood and changing very little, if at all, during the adult and later years of the life cycle.
