제목

Getting older, feeling less? A cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation of developmental patterns in experiential well-being.

저자

Hudson, Nathan W.; Lucas, Richard E.; Donnellan, M. Brent

발행기관

PsycARTICLES on APA PsycNET®

Series/Report no.

2016 Volume 31, Issue 8 (Dec)

abstract

A large body of previous research suggests that people’s global evaluations of their well-being tend to increase as a function of age. Fewer studies, however, have examined the extent to which people’s in vivo experiences of well-being (e.g., felt emotions) vary as a function of age—and the existing findings are mixed. The present study used an approximately nationally representative sample of more than 2,500 Germans to evaluate developmental patterns in both experiential and global well-being using cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. The cross-sectional and longitudinal findings converged on the idea that affect—whether positive or negative, global or experiential—decreases as a function of age and time. In contrast, life satisfaction appears to remain consistent, or perhaps decline across midlife before rebounding in old age. These findings suggest that affective well-being may develop in a nuanced way across adulthood: Negative affect appears to ebb with age—but so does positive affect. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

주요내용

웰빙에 대한 포괄적인 기준들이 연령에 따라 증가 or 감소한다고 보는 여러 가지 연구들이 존재함. 정서적인 웰빙이 성인기에 걸쳐 미묘한 방식으로 발전함. 이는 나이와 함께 긍정적이거나 부정적인 효과가 나타남.

ISBN

(ISSN: 0882-7974)

Link

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/pag/31/8/847/