Double Consciousness: Explaining Racial Paradox in Later Life Psychological Well-Being

Psychological Well-Being in Adult Life

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Is Retirement Depressing?: Labor Force Inactivity and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life

This paper assesses how retirement defined as permanent labor force non-participation in a man’s mature years affects psychological welfare. The raw correlation between retirement and well-being is negative. But this does not imply causation. In particular, people with idiosyncratically low well-being, or people facing transitory shocks which adversely affect well-being might disproportionately...

When a partner has a sexual problem: gendered implications for psychological well-being in later life.

OBJECTIVES Guided by symbolic interactionism, we examined (a) whether the psychological well-being of older adults might be threatened if they feel bothered by an intimate partner's sexual unresponsiveness and (b) whether such sexual unresponsiveness of a partner might be compensated by perceived supportiveness of significant others. We explored these questions separately by gender, anticipatin...

The Multidimensional Structure of Subjective Well-Being In Later Life

Subjective well-being can be measured in different ways, depending on the conceptual perspective one adopts. Hedonic well-being, emphasising emotions and evaluation, is often contrasted with eudemonic well-being, stressing self-actualisation and autonomy. In this paper we investigate the background, structure and compatibility of empirical measures of hedonic and eudemonic well-being in the Eng...

The impact of volunteering on well-being in later life