Data from a 1969 national sample of the white population indicate that the proportion of respondents who define life as exciting varies inversely with age. Controlling by income and education, the effect of age on defining life as exciting is mitigated but not eliminated. These findings lend support to the theories of disengagement and alienation as related to the aging process and the perceived increase in the routinization of life.
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Alston et al. (1973) studied this question.