ABSTRACT
Problems of Aging," in Clark Tibbitts (ed.), Aging and Social Health in the United States and Europe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959), pp. 156-166,
TABLE 3. DISTRIBUTION OF SUCCESS CATEGORIES
Success Category Number Per Cent
Autonomous-Persistent 1 51 30 2 29 17 3 28 17
Total 108 64
Antonomous-Precarious 1 8 5 2 9 6 3 8 5
Total 25 16
Dependent-Persistent 1 8 5 2 5 3 3 5 3
Total 18 11
Dependent-Precarious 1 10 6 2 4 2 3 3 1
Total 17 9
Total Cases 168 100
people in this culture actually do age quite successfully, but that a small minority with a cumulative tendency to deviance absorb a disproportionate amount of the energies of others and have a negative influence on the mental health of those around them.2 The findings on distribution of success in this panel tend to confirm this view.
