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| Relationships among life events and psychological well-being: more evidence for a two-factor theory of well-being | | Author(s) | Michael C Stallings, Charlotte C Dunham, Margaret Gatz |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 16, no 1, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp 104-119 |
| Keywords | Well being ; The Family ; Children [offspring] ; Grandparents ; Grandchildren ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Relationships between 11 major life events and changes in psychological well-being were examined in a three-generation sample: grandparents, their adult children and their young adult grandchildren. Psychological well-being was measured using the Bradburn Affect Balance Scale. Life events included marriages; divorces; births of children; deaths of spouses; children and parents; health declines; hospitalisations; improved standard of living; retirement; and retirement of one's spouse. Both positive and negative affect demonstrated similar stability over 14 years and were equally predictable from the life events. However, consistent with a two-factor conceptualisation of psychological well-being, for all generations, desirable life events predicted change in positive affect whereas undesirable events predicted change in negative affect; cross-domain prediction was minimal. Results further indicated that whether life events are expected may be more important in predicting subsequent psychological well-being than whether they are desirable or undesirable. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981015218 A |
| Classmark | D:F:5HH: SJ: SS: SW: SW5: 7T |
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