Revisiting Happiness and Well-Being in Later Life from Interdisciplinary Age-Studies Perspectives

Stončikaitė, Ieva

doi:10.3390/bs9090094

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“…Furthermore, programmes that involve more direct contact with older people, such as storytelling and personal ageing narratives, would allow older adults to be active subjects in research on health care and social policy services. This would promote a more inclusive model of HA in critic to active ageing policies and norms, which often limit those older individuals who are already excluded, discriminated and marginalised [32]. Furthermore, we found ethnic differences in the prevalence of HA, as found in previous research [7,10].…”

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confidence: 80%

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Healthy Ageing among People 50 Years and Older in South Africa

Pengpid

Peltzer

2021

Geriatrics

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Objective: this study aimed to determine the prevalence and correlates of healthy ageing in older adults living in the community in South Africa. Methods: the cross-sectional sample consisted of 3734 individuals (≥50 years) from the cross-sectional South African National Health and Nutrition Survey (SANHANES-1) in 2011–2012. Healthy ageing was assessed using a multidimensional concept, which includes five components: (1) absence of major illness, (2) absence of disability, (3) good mental health, (4) social engagement and (5) well-being or good health. Results: in general, 36.6% had a healthy ageing, including 73.3% had no major diseases, 87.1% were free of disability, 62.3% had good mental health, 73.0% were socially engaged and 64.0% had a high well-being. In the adjusted logistic regression analysis, male sex (Adjusted Odds Ratio-AOR: 1.33, 95% confidence interval-CI: 1.03–1.72), white population group (AOR: 3.46, 95% CI: 2.29–5.22) and coloured population group (AOR: 1.82, 95% CI: 1.34–2.47), were positively associated with healthy ageing, while increasing age (AOR: 0.96, 95% CI: 0.94–0.97), daily tobacco use (AOR: 0.56, 95% CI: 0.42–0.74), perceived underweight (AOR: 0.48, 95% CI: 0.34–0.66) and perceived overweight (AOR: 0.53, 95% CI: 0.34–0.81) were negatively associated with associated with healthy ageing. Conclusion: almost two in five older adults in South Africa were successfully ageing. Factors associated with healthy ageing included, younger age, male sex, population group (Whites, Coloureds), not daily tobacco users, not having underweight and overweight.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 80%

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Healthy Ageing among People 50 Years and Older in South Africa

Pengpid

Peltzer

2021

Geriatrics

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“…European countries have developed increasingly evidence-based prevention programmes and advanced health care capable of preventing or managing conditions for many older Europeans. Although studies have shown a seemingly successful ageing process with increasing levels of physical, mental and social wellbeing and more active lives amongst older people, 18,19 the results here and the distribution of components of disease burden give cause for caution. Perhaps while life expectancy has increased in all three European regions the last 30 years, the overall health status may have started to stagnate.…”

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confidence: 88%

Burden of disease among older adults in Europe—trends in mortality and disability, 1990–2019

Iburg

Charalampous

Allebeck

et al. 2022

European Journal of Public Health

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Background It is important to understand the effects of population ageing on disease burden and explore conditions that drive poor health in later life to prevent or manage these. We examined the development of disease burden and its components for major disease groups among older adults in Europe over the last 30 years. Methods Using data from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study, we analyzed burden of disease trends between 1990 and 2019 measured by years of life lost (YLL), years lived with disability (YLD) and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) among older adults (65+ years) in Western, Central and Eastern Europe using cause groups for diseases and injuries. Results Between 1990 and 2019, the crude numbers of DALYs for all causes increased substantially among older Western Europeans. In Eastern Europe, the absolute DALYs also increased from 1990 to 2005 but then decreased between 2006 and 2013. However, DALY rates declined for all European regions over time, with large differences in the magnitude by region and gender. Changes in the YLL rate were mainly driven by the contribution of cardiovascular diseases. Conclusions This study found an increased overall absolute disease burden among older Europeans between 1990 and 2019. The demographic change that has taken place in Eastern European countries implies a potential problem of directed resource allocation to the health care sector. Furthermore, the findings highlight the potential health gains through directing resources to health promotion and treatment to reduce YLDs and to prevent YLLs, primarily from cardiovascular diseases.

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“…In their study on this subject, Mauss et al (2011) concluded that the value given to being happy decreases when people find happiness, and therefore they do not feel very happy. In addition to the pursuit of happiness and finally reaching happiness, researches ( Yaprak et al, 2018 ; Limone et al, 2020 ; An and Suh, 2023 ; Cheng and Jiang, 2023 ) have also been interested in post-happiness outcomes ( Stončikaitė, 2019 ). The strange thing is that happiness is not as innocent as it seems.…”

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confidence: 99%

The inverted-U model of employee happiness: examining overdose happiness in context of personal characteristics, job-relationship dependency, benign stress, and various theories

Kalfaoğlu

2024

Front. Psychol.

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In recent years, the management literature has begun to deal with individual and organizational results after happiness rather than the pursuit of happiness in business life and finally reaching happiness. After the fact that everything in an overdose is harmful, it has become the subject of even more research with paradoxical results that happiness that evokes positive emotions is not as innocent as it seems. In this study, which aims to reveal the harmful effects of overdose of employee happiness, the reasons for the manager’s fear - or anxiety - about the happiness of his employees are interpreted. The Inverted-U Model of Employee Happiness (IUMEH) has been developed and individual work outputs have been evaluated in three areas that (1) support happiness, (2) reflect balanced happiness, and (3) turn negative with an overdose of happiness intoxication. It has been suggested that IUMEH, which is thought to contribute to the literature as it is the first descriptive model to emerge, should be supported by applied studies, and it has been reminded that the curvilinear aspect of the model may include differences in terms of culture, type and characteristics of job, private, public or non-profit enterprises, generations of managers and the level of managers (front-line, middle level and senior level etc.).

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Revisiting Happiness and Well-Being in Later Life from Interdisciplinary Age-Studies Perspectives

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Healthy Ageing among People 50 Years and Older in South Africa

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Healthy Ageing among People 50 Years and Older in South Africa

Burden of disease among older adults in Europe—trends in mortality and disability, 1990–2019

The inverted-U model of employee happiness: examining overdose happiness in context of personal characteristics, job-relationship dependency, benign stress, and various theories

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