Psychological needs and emotional well-being in older and younger Koreans and Americans

Hahn, Jungwon; Oishi, Shigehiro

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2005.09.001

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“…These findings can also support the hypothesis that emotional well-being may remain stable and intact in old age, and that despite having social losses, loneliness, declining physical and mental functioning, and cognitive impairments, elderly people have higher emotional well-being 48,49…”

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confidence: 70%

Cohort comparisons: emotional well-being among adolescents and older adults

Momtaz¹,

Hamid²,

Ibrahim³

2014

CIA

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BackgroundThere are several negative stereotypes about older adults that have negatively influenced people’s attitude about aging. The present study compared emotional well-being between older adults and adolescents.MethodsData for this study came from 1,403 community-dwelling elderly persons and 1,190 secondary school students and were obtained from two national cross-sectional surveys. Emotional well-being was measured using the World Health Organization-Five Well-Being Index. Data analysis was conducted using a multivariate analysis of covariance with SPSS software version 20 (IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY, USA).ResultsElderly people significantly scored higher levels of emotional well-being (mean, 62.3; standard deviation, 22.55) than younger people (mean, 57.9; standard deviation, 18.46; t, 5.32; P≤0.001). The findings from the multivariate analysis of covariance revealed a significant difference between older adults and younger people in emotional well-being [F(3, 2587)=120.21; P≤0.001; η2=0.122] after controlling for sex.ConclusionContrary to negative stereotypes about aging, our findings show a higher level of emotional well-being among older adults compared with younger people.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

Cohort comparisons: emotional well-being among adolescents and older adults

Momtaz¹,

Hamid²,

Ibrahim³

2014

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“…For example, the ideology of own-family-centered familism prevails (Cheah and Park 2006), while the interests and obligations for distant kin, the community or the whole society are increasingly considered less important (Cho and Shin 1996). Empirical studies have also indicated that autonomy, competence, and self-esteem are considered as key determinants of satisfying experiences for South Koreans (Hahn and Oishi 2006;Sheldon et al 2001). Furthermore, in the present study no significant difference was found between the participants from the two countries in their individualistic cultural orientation.…”

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confidence: 52%

Individualism, collectivism, and client expression of different emotions: their relations to perceived counselor effectiveness

Seo

2010

Asia Pacific Educ. Rev.

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This study examined how individualism, collectivism, and counselor emphasis of different client emotions were related to perceived counselor effectiveness. Data were collected from 192 (122 women and 70 men) Korean students attending a large university in South Korea and from 170 (115 women and 55 men) American students attending a large Midwestern university in the United States. Participants read a counseling script in which a counselor emphasized client expression of either egofocused emotions (e.g., anger) or other-focused emotions (e.g., guilt). Results from a hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that South Korean students who were more individualistic showed more positive perceptions of counselor effectiveness when the counselor emphasized the expression of the client's ego-focused emotions, whereas more individualistic American students perceived the counselor as less effective when the counselor emphasized the expression of the client's other-focused emotions. Also, the results demonstrated that participants who were high collectivist and low individualistic showed more positive perceptions of counselor effectiveness when the counselor emphasized the expression of the client's other-focused emotions, when compared to those who were high collectivist and high individualistic. Implications for counseling practice and future studies are discussed.

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“…In a mixed-method study, Johannesen, Petersen and Avlund, (2004) found the six wellbeing dimensions in a group of physically frail 85-year olds; they expressed wellbeing when they are meaningfully occupied, have friends, feel able to manage their own life, do not live alone, and have not lost friends recently (Johannesen et al, 2004). Hahn and Oishi (2006) found that older adults who were asked to recall the "most satisfying" event they had experienced in the past month identified an event which related to autonomy, competence in their environment, and relatedness with others. Support for the importance of autonomy has been evidenced by lower levels of depression and higher adaption in older adults who perceive they have high levels of control and self-determination in their lives (Johnson & Barer, 1997;Altintus & Guerrien, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

Wellbeing in retirement villages: Eudaimonic challenges and opportunities

Chandler¹,

Robinson²

2014

Journal of Aging Studies

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A retirement village consists of a collection of privately owned or leased flats or maisonettes for elderly adults that are supported by a central hub that provides catering, medical care and social activities. There have been studies of the psychological experience and impacts of such environments, however, there is lack of research that links the retirement village experience to overarching theories of eudaimonic wellbeing, and that uses qualitative methods to find out Wellbeing in retirement villages: Eudaimonic challenges and opportunitiesThe landscape of supported accommodation for the elderly in the UK has changed radically over the past two decades. One of the forms of residence that has increased in prevalence over this time is the 'retirement village' model (Grant, 2007). In a retirement village, elderly residents either own or rent a self-contained apartment or maisonette within a larger community that contains facilities such as dining, leisure and care services. A monthly or annual fee is paid to the community provider for access to these services (Robinson, 2012).In 2009, the BBC published a report that suggested that 25,000 older adults lived in a retirement village on that date 1 , and that number is likely to have increased markedly since then, as villages continue to be built all over the country. The lower age limit for entry into a retirement village is typically set at 55 or 60, but the average age is around 80 (Evans, 2009).Retirement villages are a relatively new social milieu that are likely to be different in their effects on wellbeing and identity, compared with more traditional forms of elderly care environment, due to the greater emphasis on autonomy and on an absence of reference to being a 'care' home. The current study aims to explore how living in a retirement village within the UK is personally experienced by residents as impacting positively and negatively on eudaimonic wellbeing, using Ryff's taxonomic model of wellbeing as an orientating framework. Eudaimonic wellbeingWellbeing is a complex construct that has been operationalized in different ways by psychologists and sociologists. Broadly, these different definitions can be categorized as and satisfaction, and in psychology this has been operationalized in the construct of 'subjective wellbeing' (SWB) (Bauer & Park, 2010). SWB contains the emotional dimensions of happiness, the balance between positive/negative affect, and the cognitive dimension of life-satisfaction (Daatland, 2005). In contrast, eudaimonic wellbeing originates in Aristotelian philosophy and is concerned with optimal experience and functioning in a broader sense than the hedonic type, including positive relationships, a sense of purpose, meaning, and a feeling of growth, as well as the hedonic cognitive-affective appraisals of happiness and satisfaction. In psychology, the eudaimonic conceptualization has been operationalized in psychological wellbeing (PWB), by Ryff (1989). Hahn and Oishi (2006) found that older adults who were asked to recall the "...

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Psychological needs and emotional well-being in older and younger Koreans and Americans

Cited by 42 publications

References 17 publications

Cohort comparisons: emotional well-being among adolescents and older adults

Cohort comparisons: emotional well-being among adolescents and older adults

Individualism, collectivism, and client expression of different emotions: their relations to perceived counselor effectiveness

Wellbeing in retirement villages: Eudaimonic challenges and opportunities

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