Everyday problem solving across the adult life span: solution diversity and efficacy

Mienaltowski, Andrew

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06207.x

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“…We must not forget that wisdom increases, and they have accumulated more experience, which helps them to make good decisions. However, we have to consider that as we age decreases the number of the identified alternatives, but increases the number of effective alternatives (Mienaltowski, 2011).…”

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The Impact of Age on the Perception of Cognitive Abilities and Decision-Making Skills

Osmani¹

2016

Eur. j. soc. sci. educ. res.

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Nowadays organizations are operating in a dynamic and turbulent environment. In these conditions, the situations are very complex and the problems are unstructured. So, to make good decisions the organizations are moving toward group decision-making. The advantages of such processes are numerous when compared to individual decision-making. The main goal of the current research focuses on the perception of cognitive and decision-making abilities, trying to understand if there is a relationship between them and age and how such perceptions may influence the attitudes toward group decision-making process. This study focuses on the banking institutions in Albania, as the most developed segment of the financial system and the entire Albanian economy and as a sector where group decision-making processes are widely used. It is generally thought that adults are less productive, less motivated, more adverse to innovation and less skilled in learning. With the age, the individual undergoes substantial changes regarding the information processing speed, memory, reasoning, concentration and executive functions. It has been shown that these changes move in the opposite direction with respect to age. Then what to do, avoid that adults make decisions? The relationship between age, cognitive and decision-making abilities is very complex. Cognitive limits orient adults to the adoption of compensatory decision-making strategies. In these circumstances, the question that arises is whether the group decisionmaking process can be an effective tool to balance these skills. On the basis of the responses offered by 247 participants and adopting the quantitative methodology, the current research tries to answer this question.

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The Impact of Age on the Perception of Cognitive Abilities and Decision-Making Skills

Osmani¹

2016

Eur. j. soc. sci. educ. res.

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“…The assumption that greater age predicates lower performance with ICTs has been increasingly questioned in academic research. Critics contend that the advantages of youth are an artifact of experimental designs, which rely on structured problems such as playing a computer game or physically manipulating interface components as tasks (Mienaltowski 2011). For example, under laboratory conditions, Myerson et al (2007) observed that younger subjects could identify items as belonging to a common category much faster than older subjects.…”

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The role of user age in task performance: examining curvilinear and interaction effects of user age, expertise, and interface design on mistake making

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The next 30 years are going to be challenging for organizations as they need to transition to a workforce that is rapidly growing older. As the workforce is growing older, the age of organizational technology users is an important aspect to examine in the context of organizational information systems (IS). The corresponding IS literature has largely assumed that age is an impediment or disadvantage when using modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) and has, thus, directed attention to the challenges faced by older technology users in the workforce. However, such research has not examined the potential benefits of an older workforce in terms of a possibly higher task performance under certain workplace conditions, such as employees' subject-area knowledge and the design of Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (the ICT interface. Hence, this paper examines age-related differences in the use of organizational ICTs in terms of the propensity that different age groups have toward performance in the form of mistake-making when searching for information. To do so, the paper forms hypotheses that explain how the combination of age, subjectarea knowledge, and system interface lead individuals to make mistakes in a technology-enabled context. Drawing on a laboratory experiment using 107 older and younger technology users, we evaluated the three-way interaction of age, subject-area knowledge, and interface design. Our results demonstrate that-under certain conditions-age is not the detriment that it is widely believed to be. The implications of this finding are explored in relation to the ''graying of the workforce'' that all OECD countries are currently experiencing.

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“…Buna karşın, Heidrich ve Denney'in (1994) benzer yaş aralığındaki (18-81) bireylerde yürüttüğü bir araştırmada sosyal problem çözme performansının diğer yaş dönemlerine göre 30 ve 40'lılı yıllarda daha yüksek olduğu belirtilse de yaşın sosyal problem çözme performansını yordamadığının altı çizilmiştir. Günlük problem çözme performansının genç yetişkinlikten orta yaş döneminin sonlarına kadar arttığını ve sonraki dönemlerde ilerleyen yaşla birlikte azaldığını öne süren araştırmacılar bu bulguların nedeni olarak günlük yaşam deneyimlerinden kaynaklanan kazançların gittikçe artmasına ve yapısal veya nörolojik düşüşlerin bu gelişimsel dönemler içerisinde görece az olmasına bağlamışlardır (Mienaltowski 2011). Bir diğer ifade ile orta yetişkin-lik döneminde yer alan bireylerde günlük problem çözme performanısının en yüksek düzeyde olmasının nedeni bilişsel kapasitelerin nispeten korunması ve deneyimin birikimli olarak artmasıdır.…”

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“…Bu nedenle, bir problem karşısında üretilen stratejinin türü ile birlikte o stratejinin seçilmesinde etkili olan faktörleri ve problemin bağlamını da incelemek önemlidir. Problem çözme performansında yaşa bağlı düşüş olmadığını öne süren araş-tırmacılar ise çoğunlukla, çözüm akıcılığı (bir problem karşısında üretilen güvenli ve etkili çözümlerin sayısı) ve problem çözme etkinliğinin operasyonel tanımındaki farklı-lıklara odaklanmışlardır (Mienaltowski 2011). Nitekim bu araştırmacılara göre, günlük problem çözme performansında kullanılan yöntemler ve bunların değerlendirilmesi, genellikle üretilen çözümlerin kalitesini ve işlevselliğini hesaba katmamaktadır.…”

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Problem Çözme Performansında Yaşa Bağlı Farklılıklar

Soylu¹,

Pala²

2018

Psikiyatride Guncel Yaklasimlar - Current Approaches in Psychiatry

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ÖzProblem çözme becerisi, bireyi pek çok açıdan etkileyen yeteneklerin başında gelmektedir ve başarılı yaşlanmada önemli bir yere sahiptir. Araştırmalar problem çözme performansının bireyin bilişsel ve kişilik özellikleri ile birlikte içinde bulunduğu sosyal bağlam ile de oldukça yakından ilişkili olduğunu göstermektedir. Bu açıdan, günlük problem çözme süreci geniş bir bağlamda incelenmesi gereken çok yönlü dinamik bir süreç gerektirir. Problem çözme başarısının tanımı, yaşam boyu gelişim psikolojisi bakış açısına bağlı olarak değişiklik gösterse de araştırmalar problem çözme performansının yaşa bağlı farklı değişim örüntüleri olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Daha özgül olarak, bazı bulgular yaş arttıkça performansın azaldığını işaret etse de diğer araştırmacılar kuramlarla çatışır bir şekilde yaş ile problem çözme arasında negatif yönde doğrusal bir ilişki olmadığını ve bu bulguların çeşitlilik gösterdiğini belirtmişlerdir. Bu derlemenin amacı, psikoloji alan yazınında problem çözme yaklaşımlarını ele almak, bu beceri üzerinde etkili olabilecek olası faktörleri tartış-mak ve bu beceriye dair güncel araştırma bulgularını sunmaktır.Anahtar sözcükler: Problem çözme, yetişkinlik, bilişsel işlevsellik. AbstractThe ability of problem-solving is one of the skills that are very influential in a person's life and it also has critical importance on successful aging. The recent studies show that problem-solving performance is very much related to the social context as well as it is related to cognitive abilities and personality traits. Since everyday problem-solving ability can be described as a versatile dynamic process, it should be studied in various contexts. Although the definition of success in problemsolving may vary through a lifespan development perspective, studies reveal that there are divergent patterns of change (decreased, increased or remained the same) in performance based on age. More specifically, some findings indicate that performance decreases as age increases, but other researchers have pointed out that there is no negative linear relationship between age and problem solving in conflict with theories and these fings vary. The aim of this review is to address recent approaches to problem-solving ability, discuss potential factors that may relate to this construct and summarize their recent findings.

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Everyday problem solving across the adult life span: solution diversity and efficacy

Cited by 40 publications

References 82 publications

The Impact of Age on the Perception of Cognitive Abilities and Decision-Making Skills

The Impact of Age on the Perception of Cognitive Abilities and Decision-Making Skills

The role of user age in task performance: examining curvilinear and interaction effects of user age, expertise, and interface design on mistake making

Problem Çözme Performansında Yaşa Bağlı Farklılıklar

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