Emotional Challenges of Undocumented Young Adults: Ontological Security, Emotional Capital, and Well-being

Cohort comparisons: emotional well-being among adolescents and older adults

BACKGROUND There are several negative stereotypes about older adults that have negatively influenced people's attitude about aging. The present study compared emotional well-being between older adults and adolescents. METHODS Data for this study came from 1,403 community-dwelling elderly persons and 1,190 secondary school students and were obtained from two national cross-sectional surveys. E...

Emotional complexity and emotional well-being in older adults: risks of high neuroticism.

Older and midlife adults tend to report greater emotional complexity and greater emotional well-being than younger adults but there is variability in these factors across the lifespan. This study determined how the personality trait of neuroticism at baseline predicts emotional complexity and emotional well-being 10 years later; a goal was to determine if neuroticism is a stronger predictor of ...

Emotional Well-being 1 Running Head: EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING Psychological Needs and Emotional Well-being in Older and Younger Koreans and Americans

This study tested the relevance of ten psychological needs in emotional well-being among older and younger adults in two cultures (the US and South Korea). Participants were asked to recall their “most satisfying event” for the past month, and then were asked to evaluate the relevance of ten psychological needs to that event. Results indicated that both age and cultural groups generally emphasi...

Economic Freedom and Emotional Well-Being

We explore the relationship between emotional well-being and economic freedom. Using data for a sample of 12 countries from wave 2 of the World Value Survey (WVS) and the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index, we find that people living in more economically free societies are more likely to report the presence of positive affect and absence of negative affect. Specifically, people who live ...

Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Well-Being