The Reactional Biography Concept: Early Contribution to a Perspective for the Psychology of Aging

Abstract

This paper reviews J.R. Kanto’s reactional biography concept in the context of published literature in the psychology of aging. The reactional biography concept is based on an organismic perspective which emphasizes the holistic nature of psychological behavior and the role of organism-environment interactions in psychological development, and it depicts a relationship between the biological and psychological life curves of the individual. Kantor’s perspective is seen to be compatible with recent views and empirical findings in the psychology of aging such as investigations of the relationship between different components of intelligence and age, the diminishing emphasis on biologically based age models, increasing recognition of organism-environment interactions, and behavioral plasticity in old age.

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