Is age-related stability of subjective well-being a paradox? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Berlin Aging Study.

By U. Kunzmann, T. Little, Jacqui Smith. Psychology and Aging, 2000

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Subfields: Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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The age and subjective well-being paradox revisited:A multidimensional perspective (2012, neutral): “, the exclusion of the frail and institutionalized elderly and the fact that people with low well-being die earlier (29,36).”
Development of Life Satisfaction in Old Age: Another View on the "Paradox'' (2006, background): “Thus, the ‘‘paradox’’ of SWB in old age may hold only in early old ages (see also Kunzmann et al., 2000), but more research is needed concerning age-related decline in LS over the 70þ ages.”
Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI): A Model of Emotional Well-Being Across Adulthood (2010, neutral): “And when controlling for these reasons, older adults look better on emotional well-being measures than younger adults (e.g., Kunzmann et al., 2000).”
Promoting older adults’ well-being through Internet training and use (2007, background): “Age-related deterioration over time in aspects related to well-being was identified in the past (e.g. Kunzmann, Little, & Smith, 2000), even in repeated measurements conducted over only several months time (Wolinsky, Wyrwich, Babu, Kroenke, & Tierney, 2003).”
The evolving concept of subjective well-being: The multifaceted nature of happiness. (2009, background): “Thus, people who experience positive emotions intensely will likely experience negative emotions intensely, a finding that is supported by research on individual differences in affect intensity (Larsen and Diener, 1987).”
Flow and Happiness in Later Life: An Investigation into the Role of Daily and Weekly Flow Experiences (2009, background): “In later life, adults may experience slightly less positive affect than younger individuals, but that is accompanied by a decline in negative emotions, especially the higher arousal emotions such as anger and fear (Gross et al. 1997; Kunzmann et al. 2000; Labouvie-Vief et al. 1989; Stacey and Gatz 1”
Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany (2010, background): “Three possible explanations come to mind for this “stability despite loss paradox” (Kunzmann et al., 2000) or “satisfaction paradox” (see Walker, 2005).”
The influence of personality and life events on subjective well-being from a life span perspective (2009, methodology): “Subsequent analyses were conducted according to a procedure suggested by Kunzmann, Little, and Smith (2000) in order to test if the strength of two paths significantly differed from one another.”
The Role of Cognitive Control in Older Adults' Emotional Well-Being (2008, background): “Controlling for health status can reverse negative relationships between age and emotion to reveal age-associated improvements to wellbeing (Kunzmann et al., 2000), yet not all studies finding age-related declines in well-being have evaluated the impact of health (see Pinquart, 2001).”
Psychological and physical well-being during unemployment: a meta-analytic study. (2005, result): “In contrast to these arguments, Kunzmann, Little, and Smith (2000) suggest older individuals are better able to accept disappointment and to maximize their positive affect than younger individuals.”