Review of: Change of Interests with Age

Reviews the book Change of Interests with Age by Edward K. Strong . This work, according to the author, is presented to throw light upon the psychology of later maturity and to determine how changes of interest with age may affect vocational guidance which is based upon the interests of young people. Types of interests which show fairly systematic decrease with increasing age are likings for: physical skill and daring, change or interference in activities, occupations in general, oral or written linguistics, amusements in general, people with undesirable characteristics, and things generally disliked at twenty-five, except occupations, school subjects, and general activities. Likings which increase with advancing age include: reading, cultural and solitary amusements, people with desirable characteristics, and things generally liked at twenty-five, except occupations, school subjects, and general activities. The author points out that a genetic study of interest changes would be more valid than his comparison of age groups, and is cautious in ascribing apparent interest differences to corresponding age differences.