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Think positively and feel positively
— optimism and life satisfaction in late life | | Author(s) | Beeto Wai-Chung Leung, Giovanni B Moneta, Catherine McBride-Chang |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 61, no 4, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 335-366 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Life satisfaction ; Attitude ; Self esteem ; Personal relationships ; Health [elderly] ; Living in the community ; Measurement ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | A dispositional path model of life satisfaction is developed for a sample of 117 older Chinese (32 men and 85 women aged 56-89) living in the community in Hong Kong. These participants completed scales measuring life satisfaction, optimism, self-esteem, relationship harmony, self-construals, perceived or expected health, and financial status. Modelling revealed that life satisfaction was produced by self-esteem and relationship harmony, which in turn was predicted by independent and interdependent self-construals, respectively. In addition, optimism predicted life satisfaction directly and indirectly through self-esteem and relationship harmony. Financial status mediated entirely the effect of optimism but did not predict life satisfaction. Optimism is a key contributor to subjective well-being, because it fosters self-esteem, relationship harmony, and positive perceptions of financial conditions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051214205 A |
| Classmark | F:5HH: DP: DPA: DS: CC: K4: 3R: 7DR |
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