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| Age, ageing and subjective wellbeing in later life | | Author(s) | Stephen Jivraj, James Nazroo, Bram Vanhoutte |
| Corporate Author | Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research - CCSR, University of Manchester |
| Publisher | Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, Manchester, 2013 |
| Pages | 20 pp (CCSR Paper 2013-05) |
| Source | Download: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/documents/agewellbeing_jivra... |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Well being ; Longitudinal surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | Using data from five waves of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA, 2002-2011), the researchers fit multilevel linear growth curve models, to examine the cross-sectional effects of age and the longitudinal effects of ageing on quality of life, depressive symptomatology and life satisfaction in later life. The researchers find that older people are shown to have a better subjective well-being than those that are younger for each well-being measure, except at the oldest age for quality of life. Nonetheless, deterioration in well-being is greater at older ages, even when adjusting for age-related changes in later life, including widowhood, retirement and declining health. The results suggest that although older people enjoy higher levels of subjective well-being than their younger counterparts, they experience sharper declines, especially at the oldest ages. The findings also demonstrate the importance of taking into account the multidimensionality of subjective well-being to determine the point at which age deterioration begins to occur across different measures. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130705003 E |
| Classmark | BG: D:F:5HH: 3J: 82 |
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