According to socioemotional selectivity theory, elderly adults are helped to achieve integrity by their successful experiences in resolving the earlier crises of personality development that punctuate the lifespan.

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Socioemotional selectivity theory primarily focuses on how older adults prioritize emotionally meaningful goals and relationships due to the perception of time being limited, rather than achieving integrity through resolving earlier life crises, which is more closely related to Erikson's stages of psychosocial development.

According to Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, Elderly Adults Are Helped to Achieve