Age and Present and Future Perceived Quality of Life

Staats, Sara; Stassen, Marjorie A.

doi:10.2190/gcaa-lc01-q8d0-r2f6

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“…Studies that show adults perceive increased risk of decline and decreased potential for personal growth across the life cycle (Heckhausen et al, 1989) as well as age-related declines in goal seeking and positive expectations concerning oneself and one's future life (Reker, Peacock, & Wong, 1987) also converge with these findings. There are, however, exceptions: Staats and Stassen (1987) showed expectations for future quality of life that exceeded present evaluations, although their oldest respondents were considerably younger than those included in this study.…”

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confidence: 53%

Possible selves in adulthood and old age: A tale of shifting horizons.

Ryff¹

1991

Psychology and Aging

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389

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Young, middle-aged, and elderly adults (N= 308) evaluated themselves on 6 dimensions of psychological well-being according to present, past, future, and ideal self-assessments, "\bung and middleaged adults saw considerable improvement in themselves from the past to the present on all dimensions of well-being. The elderly, however, indicated largely a perception of stability with prior levels of functioning. Future ratings showed that the 2 younger groups expected continued gains in the years ahead, whereas the oldest respondents foresaw decline on most aspects of well-being. The comparison of present and ideal self-ratings supported (cross-sectionally) the hypothesis that with age, individuals achieve a closer fit between their ideal and their actual self-perceptions.The purpose of this study was to examine how adults and the elderly conceive of their personal progress or decline over the course of adult life. The assumption was that perceptions of improvement, maintenance, and decline constitute aspects of psychological well-being that are typically overlooked. Most studies of subjective well-being focus on present self-evaluathe contrast with past and future evaluations provides critical information about whether individuals see themselves getting better or worse over time. Positive mental health thus includes not only the sense that one is functioning well in the present but also the sense that one has held steady or improved relative to the past and that similar well-being is anticipated in the future.Such temporal self-evaluations parallel current social psychological interest in possible selves (Markus & Nurius, 1986;Markus & Ruvolo, 1989), defined as representations of the self in the past and future. These self-representations may function as incentives for future behavior (selves to be approached or avoided), and they also provide an evaluative, interpretive context for current views of the self. The latter component, namely how past and future selves contribute to interpretations of personal progress or decline over time, was the focus in this study Such questions relate to conceptions of self-narratives (Gergen & Gergen, 1988), described as the individual's attempt to understand his or her cross-time trajectory. Such narratives can be stable (the individual's evaluative images remain unchanged over time), progressive (evaluative images show increments over time), or regressive (evaluative images show decrements over time). My aim was to examine possible age differences in these patterns of self-narratives.

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Possible selves in adulthood and old age: A tale of shifting horizons.

Ryff¹

1991

Psychology and Aging

440

389

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“…Because the proportion of older persons is increasing, their perceptions of future as well as present well-being are important. Hope, future time perspective, and cognitions about the future may change across the life span and may also be different for various cohorts of individuals (Ryff, 1989; Staats & Stassen, 1987). However, the notion that plans, hopes for the future self, and a future time perspective are maintained in most older adults is supported by the research of Hooker (1992) on possible selves in older adults and Holahan's (1988) research on life goals at 70 years of age.…”

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Future time perspective, response rates, and older persons: Another chapter in the story.

Staats¹,

Partlo²,

Stubbs³

1993

Psychology and Aging

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Data quality is compromised when response rates to items vary with age group. Shmotkin (1992) found a 29% nonresponse rate to future-oriented items in persons older than 60 years and suggested future apprehension as a cause. The authors administered similar items to 251 older persons and found fewer instances of nonresponding to future-oriented items. On the basis of the high response rate to an enlarged Cantril ladder measuring future quality of life, presented in interview, the authors question the generality of future apprehension as a determinant of nonresponding. The authors suggest that mode of administration, size of items, and scale complexity, as well as future apprehension, are determinants of nonresponding to future-oriented items and scales.

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“…The experience of cancer itself at a younger age may impact on subsequent health behaviour in older age (Benyamini et al 2003). Other studies have shown that increasing age is associated with decreasing health and QOL (Farquhar 1995) and differing expectations of QOL (Staats & Stassen 1987). Measures such as the EUROQOL or SF-36 have demonstrated a heavy response burden and increased requirement for interview administration with advancing age (Brazier et al 1996).…”

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What are we trying to measure? Rethinking approaches to health outcome assessment for the older person with cancer

Fitzsimmons

2004

Eur J Cancer Care

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The health burden of cancer within the older population is well recognized. For many of these patients, interventions and treatments will focus predominantly on improvements in health outcomes. There has been substantial interest in the development and application of health outcome assessments for use in cancer patients, yet in comparison, there has been less focus on the older person with cancer. This paper will review current perspectives on health outcome assessment in older people with cancer; the methodological challenges associated with this work and present recommendations for future work, including the potential application of a 'user-generated' approach to health outcome assessment in the older person with cancer.

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Age and Present and Future Perceived Quality of Life

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Possible selves in adulthood and old age: A tale of shifting horizons.

Possible selves in adulthood and old age: A tale of shifting horizons.

Future time perspective, response rates, and older persons: Another chapter in the story.

What are we trying to measure? Rethinking approaches to health outcome assessment for the older person with cancer

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