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Direct linkWaddell, Erin L.; Jacobs-Lawson, Joy M. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of background, psychological, and social variables on older adults' well-being, and how this may differ for men and women. Participants included 800 adults from the 2002 Health and Retirement Study (HRS), aged 60 to 101 years old (M = 71.22, SD = 8.46), who completed the optional positive…
Descriptors: Marital Status, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Older Adults, Well Being
Eakman, Aaron M.; Carlson, Mike E.; Clark, Florence A. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2010
The Meaningful Activity Participation Assessment (MAPA), a recently developed 28-item tool designed to measure the meaningfulness of activity, was tested in a sample of 154 older adults. The MAPA evidenced a sufficient level of internal consistency and test-retest reliability and correlated as theoretically predicted with the Life Satisfaction…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Depression (Psychology), Older Adults
Schmitt, Marina; Kliegel, Matthias; Shapiro, Adam – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2007
Many studies point out the importance of marital satisfaction for well-being. However, although being married is still the norm in middle and old age, research on the determinants of marital satisfaction has neglected long-term marriages. While research on short-term marriages mainly focuses on partner fit (e.g., in personality traits and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Personality Traits, Socioeconomic Status, Marital Status
Koropeckyj-Cox, Tanya; Pienta, Amy Mehraban; Brown, Tyson H. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2007
We explore women's psychological well-being in late midlife in relation to childlessness and timing of entry into motherhood. Using two U.S. surveys, Health and Retirement Study (HRS) (1992) and National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) (Sweet, Bumpass, & Call, 1988), we assess the well-being of childless women in their 50s compared to…
Descriptors: Psychology, Marriage, Childlessness, Socioeconomic Status
Price, Christine A.; Joo, Eunjee – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2005
Increased divorce rates, declining marriage rates, and a predisposition to widowhood in later life all contribute to the heterogeneous marital histories of women approaching retirement. Existing research on retirement, however, has not considered the diversity in marital status that exists among retired women. The purpose of the present study was…
Descriptors: Females, Marital Status, Divorce, Retirement
Siu, Oi-Ling; Phillips, David R. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2002
The "dual-channel" hypothesis (Lawton, 1996), which suggests the dual-antecedent pattern for positive and negative aspects of psychological well-being, was tested by examining the differential relationships between objective and subjective measures of family support (family contact, family quality, perceived importance of family) and…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Social Support Groups, Foreign Countries, Psychology
