Joaquin believes that older adults deliberately withdraw from social contact with individuals who are peripheral to their lives while maintaining or increasing contact with close friends and family members with whom they have had enjoyable relationships. He is a proponent of
socioemotional selectivity theory.
selective optimization with compensation theory.
social discontinuity theory.
activity theory.
socioemotional selectivity theory.
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