Generativity, aging and subjective well-being

Successful aging and subjective well-being among oldest-old adults.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This research integrates successful aging and developmental adaptation models to empirically define the direct and indirect effects of 2 distal (i.e., education and past life experiences) and 5 proximal influences (i.e., physical functioning, cognitive functioning, physical health impairment, social resources, and perceived economic status) on subjective well-being. The pro...

Successful Aging and Subjective Well-Being Among Oldest-Old Adults

1Center for Applied Health Research, Baylor Scott & White Health | School of Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station. 2Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University, Ames. 3Institute of Gerontology, University of Georgia, Athens. 4Georgia Centenarian Study group included Maurice MacDonald, S. Michal Jazwinski, Robert C. Green, Marla Gearing, W...

Aging and subjective well-being in later life.

OBJECTIVES This paper examines age-related changes in subjective well-being (SWB) in later life using multiple measures that cover eudemonic, evaluative, and affective dimensions of well-being. METHOD Using data from 5 waves of respondents aged 50 and older from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2002-11), we fit multilevel linear growth curve models to examine the cohort differences a...

Subjective well-being

This paper examines the notion of “subjective well-being” as it is used in literature on subjective measures of well-being. I argue that those who employ the notion differ at least superficially on at least two points: first, about the relationship between subjective well-being and well-being simpliciter, and second, about the constituents of subjective well-being. In an effort to reconcile the...

Subjective well-being.