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| Self-appraisal, life satisfaction, and retrospective life choices across one and three decades | | Author(s) | Carole K Holahan, Charles J Holahan, Nancy L Wonacott |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 2, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 238-244 |
| Keywords | Self esteem ; Competence ; Life satisfaction ; Middle aged ; Young elderly ; Octogenarians ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This research investigated the relationship of a self-appraisal of having lived up to one's intellectual abilities at mid-life (average age of 49 years) with life satisfaction and retrospective life choices one and three decades later among 383 participants in the Terman Study of the Gifted. Study 1 showed that participants who reported living up to their intellectual abilities were higher in satisfaction with occupational success, satisfaction with family life, and joy of living 11 years later. Study 2 showed that participants who reported living up to their abilities were higher in overall life satisfaction, and were less likely to report that they would make different life choices in work or family three decades later. In an integrative structural equation model, the relation between the mid-life self-appraisal of having lived up to intellectual abilities and overall satisfaction at age 80 was mediated by life satisfaction discrepancy at age 61. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825215 A |
| Classmark | DPA: DPB: F:5HH: SE: BBA: BBM: 3J: 7T |
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