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Is age-related stability of subjective well-being a paradox? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Berlin Aging Study.
Abstract
Subjective well-being is thought to remain relatively stable into old age despite health-related losses. Age and functional health constraints were examined as predictors of individual differences and intraindividual change in subjective well-being, as indicated by positive and negative affect, using cross-sectional (N = 516) and longitudinal (N = 203) samples from the Berlin Aging Study (age range 70-103 years). In cross-sectional and longitudinal 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 decline in subjective well-being but health constraints are.
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- Authors
- Kunzmann, U., Little, T. D., & Smith, J.
- Venue
- Psychology and Aging
- Published
- 2000
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 511-526
- ISSN
- 0882-7974 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1498
- OpenAlex
- W2093257852
- Cited by
- 641
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 11.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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