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Future expectations of quality of life and present evaluations of quality of life were measured in three age groups using four measures. Expectations were found to exceed present evaluations on all four measures. There was a significant correlation between age and the Faces Scale for future expectations. Age also related to differences between future expectations and present quality of life estimates. Expectations, the cognitive dimension of hope, merit more intensive study.

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The inventory here described represents a variant of inter-actionism in a self-report agonistic inventory. The situations, reactions, and scoring of the inventory are empirically based. Relational age and sex of instigator to the responder were used to generate four scales within each psychosocial situation. While sex of the responder did not interact with the different situations per se, responder's sex did interact with the age-sex scales. Men were more influenced by these psychosocial aspects of the instigator than were women.

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