Age-associated Well-Being Remains a Mystery
Age and Happiness
Global and hedonic well-being may represent a potentially valuable social indicator, but little is understood about the underlying causal factors. The best predictor of well-being that has been identified so far is age, in that self-reported well-being begins to improve during mid adulthood. In an attempt to discover the underlying factors controlling well-being the data from a large survey were stratified by age and then analyzed for possible confounding factors. The strong association between age and well-being was confirmed with a high degree of confidence, but failed to detect any evidence of a causal association between gender, relationship status, raising children, or employment status. Although maturity-related traits, such as increased wisdom and affect regulation, have been proposed in the past to explain the age-associated increase in well-being, the sharp slope deflection points and the U-shape of the curve are inconsistent with these explanations.
Age-Associated Well-Being Remains a Mystery
Introduction
Global and psychological (hedonic) well-being has been suggested to be a way for quantifying the overall psychological health of a nation (reviewed in Stone, Schwartz, Broderick, and Angus, 2010). Global well-being represents an individual's overall assessment of their lives, while hedonic well-being is used to measure a person's average mood (affect) or attitude concerning their current life (affect).
Previous studies have found that once a person is transitioning through middle age their global assessment improves (reviewed in Stone, Schwartz, Broderick, and Angus, 2010). This improvement is unrelated to generational differences in terms of experience and not limited to Western...
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