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Acceptance: a key to wellbeing in older adults?

Ranzijn, Rob, Luszcz, Mary·1999·Australian Psychologist
DOI 10.1080/00050069908257435
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It is commonly found that the wellbeing of older adults worldwide is very high, in spite of declining health and other losses (Myers & Diener, 1995). It could be that wellbeing is maintained because older people accept age-related changes as normative concomitants of the ageing process. Self-acceptance is thought to be crucial for the attainment of integrity, the goal of the last stage of life in Erikson's theory of psychosocial development (1959/1980). Erikson postulated that lack of self-acceptance would be lead to despair and reduced wellbeing. The hypothesis that acceptance predicts wellbeing was tested on 840 community-dwelling adults between the ages of 72 and 105 years, a subsample of participants in the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Acceptance was operationalised by two items from the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985). Wellbeing was measured by scales of positive and negative affect. LISREL8 was used to test structural equation models of the relationship between acceptance and wellbeing, with self-rated health and adequacy of income included as controls. It was found that both acceptance and self-rated health were good predictors of wellbeing. However, this result is based on cross-sectional data. Further work is needed to clarify the causal relationships between acceptance and wellbeing.

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  • Acceptance contributes to effective coping with adversity, reduced stress, and improved emotional well-being.

    “A growing body of research also suggests that acceptance contributes to effective coping with adversity, reduced stress, and improved emotional well-being.”

    From Aspects of acceptance: building a shared conceptual understanding (2024) · cites this paper as Ranzijn and Luszcz, 1999

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Authors
Ranzijn, R., & Luszcz, M.
Affiliations
Flinders University (AU)
ORCID
Luszcz, Mary
Venue
Australian Psychologist
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
1999-07-01
Volume
34
Issue
2
Pages
94-98
ISSN
  • 0005-0067 (ISSN-L)
  • 1742-9544
DOI
10.1080/00050069908257435
OpenAlex
W1969469021
Cited by
38
References
46
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
  • Australian Psychologist (publishedVersion)
  • Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
Keywords
acceptance, well-being, older adults, self-acceptance, life satisfaction, self-rated health, income adequacy, positive and negative affect, Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, integrity, aging, Satisfaction with Life Scale

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