@article{ref1,
title="Getting older, feeling less? A cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation of developmental patterns in experiential well-being",
journal="Psychology and aging",
year="2016",
author="Hudson, Nathan W. and Lucas, Richard E. and Donnellan, M. Brent",
volume="31",
number="8",
pages="847-861",
abstract="A large body of previous research suggests that people's global evaluations of their well-being tend to increase as a function of age. Fewer studies, however, have examined the extent to which people's in vivo experiences of well-being (e.g., felt emotions) vary as a function of age-and the existing findings are mixed. The present study used an approximately nationally representative sample of more than 2,500 Germans to evaluate developmental patterns in both experiential and global well-being using cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. The cross-sectional and longitudinal findings converged on the idea that affect-whether positive or negative, global or experiential-decreases as a function of age and time. In contrast, life satisfaction appears to remain consistent, or perhaps decline across midlife before rebounding in old age. These findings suggest that affective well-being may develop in a nuanced way across adulthood: Negative affect appears to ebb with age-but so does positive affect. (PsycINFO Database Record<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0882-7974",
doi="10.1037/pag0000138",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pag0000138"
}