TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Getting older, feeling less? A cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation of developmental patterns in experiential well-being
JO  - Psychology and aging
A1  - Hudson, Nathan W.
A1  - Lucas, Richard E.
A1  - Donnellan, M. Brent
SP  - 847
EP  - 861
VL  - 31
IS  - 8
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0882-7974
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pag0000138
ID  - ref1
ER  -