“I think I'm better at it myself”: the Capability Approach and Being Independent in Later Life.

The "I Designed It Myself" Effect in Mass Customization

M companies offer websites that enable customers to design their own individual products, which the manufacturer can then produce to order. To date, the economic value of products self-designed using mass customization (MC) toolkits has been attributed to the two factors of preference fit achieved (which should be as high as possible) and design effort (which should be as low as possible). On t...

Buy It for Myself ’

Ecommerce web sites are increasingly introducing personalized features in order to build and retain relationships with customers and increase the number of purchases made by each customer. While survey data, (Personalization Consortium, 2000; Personalization Consortium, 2001), user studies (Karat, et al, 2003), and experience (Manber, 2000) indicate that many individuals appreciate personalizat...

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

Childbearing History and Self-Reported Well-Being in Later Life

The authors examined how numbers of live births and pregnancy losses affected the self-rated health and depressive symptoms of women aged 50 years and older, contrasting African Americans and Whites. The authors used data from Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities, a large, prospective study with substantial minority representation. They tested hypotheses that childbearing history variables would...