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Life satisfaction across the life course
— evaluations of the most and least satisfying decades of life | | Author(s) | Mimi Mehlsen, Merete Platz, Pia Fromholt |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 57, no 3, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 217-236 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Life satisfaction ; Attitude ; Life span ; Social surveys ; Denmark. |
| Annotation | In a recent American study, the decades from ages 20 to 59 were most frequently chosen to be the most satisfying. However, one third of older people evaluated a decade in old age to be the most satisfying. The present study was undertaken to investigate whether Field's 1996 findings in this journal could be replicated in a larger, representative sample of older Danes. Four cohorts born with an interval of 5 years, 62 to 77 years (n=3,207) were asked to point out the most and the least satisfying decades of life. The years from 30 to 39 were most frequently chosen as the most satisfying decade, followed by the adjoining decades. A decade in old age was chosen as the least satisfying by 24% of the participants, while only 8.5% of the participants evaluated old age as the most satisfying period of life. Further analyses were made to examine conditions related to evaluating the present decade as the most or the least satisfying. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040629202 A |
| Classmark | F:5HH: DP: BG6: 3F: 76K |
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