Health and Happiness among Older Adults: A Community-based Study
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The relationship between health and happiness was explored using a cross-sectional survey of 383 community-dwelling older adults. As a function of self-reported health, median happiness was increasing at a decreasing rate; happiness variability was decreasing at a decreasing rate. In multivariable logistic regression, lowest-quartile happiness was associated with poverty, unfavorable subjective health, debilitating pain and urinary incontinence, but not with the comorbidity count or other comorbidities. The results, robust to common method bias, suggest that subjective health measures are better predictors of happiness than objective measures are, except for conditions that disrupt daily functioning or are associated with social stigma.
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- Authors
- Angner, E., Ray, M. N., Saag, K. G., & Allison, J. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Corresponding author
- Angner, Erik
- Venue
- Journal of Health Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-04-21
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 503-512
- ISSN
- 1359-1053 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7277
- OpenAlex
- W2036045531
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 11.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship@UMassChan (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U18-HS010389)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- happiness, subjective well-being, older adults, self-reported health, health-related quality of life, poverty, pain, urinary incontinence, comorbidities, community-dwelling older adults
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Alabama, Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal, Attitude to Health, Chronic Disease, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Happiness, Health Surveys, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pain, Poverty, Primary Health Care, Urinary Incontinence, Geriatric Assessment, Comorbidity
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