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Happiness and congruence in older adulthood
— a structural model of life satisfaction | | Author(s) | A J Bishop, P Martin, L Poon |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 10, no 5, September 2006 |
| Pages | pp 445-453 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Emotions ; Attitude ; Life satisfaction ; Centenarians ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A structural model of life satisfaction was constructed using data for a sample of 320 older people from the Georgia Centenarian Study. LISREL Linear Structural RELationships) analysis was performed to test a two-factor model that included Happiness and Congruence, and to determine the relationship of health impairment, socioeconomic status (SES), and social support to Happiness and Congruence, two measures of the Life Satisfaction Index - A (LSI-A). Data were found to provide a satisfactory fit of the model. Social support and SES were found to have direct effects on health impairment. Health impairment was a key predictor and mediating variable of Happiness and Congruence. Findings also support a relationship between social resources and subjective well-being in later life. In particular, the association between social resources and life satisfaction was mediated through health impairment. These findings offer understanding relative to how health and social resources influence past and present assessments of older people's subjective well-being. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070112203 A |
| Classmark | DL: DP: F:5HH: BBT: 49: 7T |
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