The mystery of the U-shaped relationship between happiness and age

By P. Frijters, T. Beatton. 2012

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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In General Health Professions

1. Daniel Gray
2. Saizi Xiao
3. M. Asadullah
4. Sarah Brown
5. Orsolya Lelkes
6. E. Yeoh

In Health

1. Daniel Gray
2. Saizi Xiao
3. M. Asadullah
4. Sarah Brown
5. Orsolya Lelkes
6. E. Yeoh

In Social Psychology

1. Daniel Gray
2. Saizi Xiao
3. M. Asadullah
4. Sarah Brown
5. Orsolya Lelkes
6. E. Yeoh
7. Nattavuudh Powdthavee

Citations in the corpus

• The age and subjective well-being paradox revisited:A multidimensional perspective (2012, unknown): “Life satisfaction (1-5) Positive affect (1-5) Negative affect (1-5) Depression (1-4)”
• How’s Life at Home? New Evidence on Marriage and the Set Point for Happiness (2017, unknown): “This parallels Frijters and Beatton (2012), who find that inclusion of individual fixed effects also removes the U-shape in age.”
• Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location (2015, methodology): “Using panel data fromGermany, the UK, and Australia, Frijters and Beatton (2012) report aweaker U-shaped relationship for the 20–60 age range. 30 Individuals who reached the official marriage age (20 for female, 22 for male) on/after the introduction of OCP are defined as members of the OCP cohort. ”
• Happier and less isolated: internet use in old age (2012, background): “…and happiness tends to conclude that there is a U-shape, with the elderly being better off than the middle aged (Blanchflower and Oswald 2008; Frijters and Beatton 2012), but this holds only if we control for other characteristics and life events which are typical of old age (lower…”
• Household finances and well-being in Australia: An empirical analysis of comparison effects☆ (2016, methodology): “This approach has been used to analyse overall life satisfaction in a variety of studies, see for example, Dickerson, Hole, and Munford (2014), Frijters and Beatton (2012) and Mujcic and Frijters (2015).”