Action resources and meaning resources:: Developmental patterns and protective effects

Perceived resources in four different domains (personal resources, social and material resources, biographical resources, religious and value-related resources) were assessed on a sample of 808 participants in the age range from 63 to 86 years. The resource domains show distinct and partly similar associations with personality traits such as, extraversion or perceived control, but opposite, regressions on age: Within the age-range studied, losses in personal action resources are accompanied by increases in meaning-related. resources (religious, and value commitments, life review). Moderated regression analyses furthermore indicate that the predictive weight of these resources for subjective lift quality and well-being changes with, age; moderating effects are suggestive of a compensatory relationship between "action" resources and "meaning" resources.