Change in life satisfaction during adulthood: findings from the veterans affairs normative aging study.

By D. Mroczek, A. Spiro. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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A test for the convexity of human well-being over the life cycle: Longitudinal evidence from a 20-year panel (2011, background): “Some recent research also documents cross-country evidence of a second turning point in life around the age of 75 (Fischer, 2009; Gwozdz and Sousa-Poza, 2010; Mroczek and Spiro, 2005).”
Impact of positive psychological capital on employee well-being over time. (2010, background): “…to develop it, the purpose of this article is to introduce and empirically test an emerging construct, psychological capital (PsyCap), that we propose is related to and may help facilitate the occupational health objective of attaining high levels of employee psychological well-being (PWB).”
Positivity: The Dispositional Basis of Happiness (2016, background): “2005; Mastekaasa 1994), and in sustaining health (Mroczek and Spiro 2005).”
On the Relation between Performance and Life Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Passion (2012, background): “Past research on life satisfaction has found that not all individuals react identically to the same event (e.g., Lucas et al., 2003; Mroczek & Spiro, 2005; Pavot et al., 1990).”
Congruence between social values and implicit motives: effects on life satisfaction across three cultures (2006, result): “…found a positive association between participants’ age and level of life satisfaction, past crosssectional studies yielded mixed results, with some reporting no relationship and others reporting a positive relationship between age and life satisfaction (e.g., Diener, 1984; Mroczek & Spiro, 2005).”
Social and Emotional Aging (2010, background): “In longitudinal studies examining this same age range, older age is related to lower levels of negative affect (Charles et al. 2001), increases in life satisfaction (Mroczek & Spiro 2005), and stable levels of positive affect (Charles et al. 2001).”
Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI): A Model of Emotional Well-Being Across Adulthood (2010, neutral): “In another study, reports of life satisfaction increased until around age 65, at which time levels decreased slightly (Mroczek & Spiro, 2005).”
Well-Being across America (2011, neutral): “13 Oswald and Wu (2010), which was written after the current paper, but was published more quickly because of the speed of science journals, is concerned with that issue; its contribution is partly methodological and attempts to show a match with the objective pattern found in Gabriel et al.”
Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle? (2008, neutral): “Related work is that of Mroczek and Spiro (2005), who establish in a data set on American veterans, where the youngest person in the data set is 40 years old -- making it hard to draw a full comparison with our later random samples -- that happiness rises into the person’s early 60s, and then…”
An upward spiral: Bidirectional associations between positive affect and positive aspects of close relationships across the life span (2015, background): “…or manipulation Steptoe et al. (2011) O, C, ESM 4258 52–79 (M = 64.3) State PA Three positive emotions words Marital status Married vs. unmarried Mroczek and Spiro (2005) L, C 1927 T1: 33–92 (M = 55, SD = 8) Life satisfaction Life Satisfaction Inventory: Form A Marital status Married vs. not…”
Income and Quality of Life: Does the Love of Money Make a Difference? (2007, neutral): “Married people have high life satisfaction (Mroczek and Spiro, 2005).”
Gender Differences in Marital and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Malaysians (2009, background): “Yet, others have reported negative relations (e.g., Alston and Dudley 1973; Parker and Calhoun 1996) as well as quadratic or curvilinear relations (e.g., Mroczek and Spiro 2005 ).”