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| Strengths and satisfaction across the adult lifespan | | Author(s) | Derek M Isaacowitz, George E Vaillant, Martin E P Seligman |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 57, no 2, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 181-201 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Life satisfaction ; Life span ; Young people ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Positive psychology has recently developed a classification of human strengths. The authors aimed to evaluate these strengths by investigating the strengths and life satisfaction in three adult samples recruited from the community (young adult, middle aged, and older adult) as well as in the surviving men of the Grant Study of Harvard Graduates (1940 and 1942). In general, older people had higher levels of interpersonal and self-regulatory strengths, whereas younger adults reported higher levels of strengths related to exploring the world. Grant Study men tended to report lower strength levels than older adults from the community. Among the younger adults, only hope significantly predicted life satisfaction, whereas among the middle-aged individuals, the capacity for loving relationships was the only predictor. Among community-dwelling older adults, hope, citizenship and loving relationships all positively and uniquely predicted life satisfaction, compared with loving relationships and appreciation of beauty in the Grant sample. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040519211 A |
| Classmark | F:5HH: BG6: SB: SE: BB: 3F: 7T |
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