[Personality and life satisfaction in the aged]

An investigation was carried out on biographical items of 111 partakers in the university-of-third-age by means of a questionnaire. Contentedness of one's life was found related to one's personality, the first being in favour for preservation and development of certain features of personality, the second influencing contentedness. Factors those strengthening life-contentedness as well as health are found being appropriate self-focusing to the aging-process, readiness to continue learning, creating a new task of life after retirement, social activity, family contacts, and self-consciousness. Psychical and social factors to a certain amount, are supposed to be compensatory concerning physical involution and health injuries, thus being basical to life-contentedness and the level of personality at higher age of life.