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Is age-related stability of subjective well-being a paradox?
— cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Berlin Aging Study | | Author(s) | Ute Kunzmann, Todd D Little, Jacqui Smith |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 3, September 2000 |
| Pages | pp 511-526 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Well being ; Cross sectional surveys ; Longitudinal surveys ; Germany. |
| Annotation | Despite health-related losses, subjective well-being is thought to remain relatively stable into old age. Age and functional health constraints were examined as predictors of individual differences and intra-individual change in subjective well-being as indicated by positive and negative affect, using cross-sectional (N=536) and longitudinal (N=203) samples from the Berlin Aging Study (age range 70-103). For both analyses, age and functional health constraints were negatively related to positive affect, but unrelated to negative affect. Cross-sectionally, controlling for functional health constraints reversed the direction of the relationship between age and positive affect, and produced a negative association between age and negative affect. Findings suggest two qualifications to the average stability of overall subjective well-being. Only some dimensions of subjective well-being remain stable, while others decline; age per se is not a cause of the decline, but health constraints are. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001024218 A |
| Classmark | CC: D:F:5HH: 3KB: 3J: 767 |
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