What matters, and what matters most, for change in life satisfaction in the oldest-old? A study over 6 years among individuals 80+

Berg, Anne Ingeborg; Hoffman, Lesa; Hassing, Linda B.; McClearn, Gerald E.; Johansson, Boo

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“…Two limitations characterize these studies. First, the counterintuitive findings of a weak relationship between life satisfaction and objective health measures, also confirmed in our own previous studies (Berg et al 2006;Berg et al 2009), may reflect a neglect of the heterogeneity of health and personal resources in old age groups. Even if a large proportion of individuals aged 80 and older handle ill-health and frailty well, the lack of personal resources and the ability to cope in the presence of ill-health could affect life satisfaction negatively in specific subgroups.…”

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Personality and personal control make a difference for life satisfaction in the oldest-old: findings in a longitudinal population-based study of individuals 80 and older

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This study investigates life satisfaction in relation to impending death among the oldest-old using overall disease load, self-rated health, and personality as interacting covariates of level and change. We used data from a sample of 370 healthy individuals who completed the Life Satisfaction Index-Z at four measurement occasions during a 6-year period in the Swedish OCTO-Twin study of individuals aged 80 and older. Growth curve analyses showed a linear decrease in life satisfaction as individuals approached death. The decrease was not related to level or change in self-rated health and disease load. High disease load was, however, related to lower levels of life satisfaction, but, this association was moderated by locus of control, such that those with high disease load and high locus of control did not show lower life satisfaction. Poor self-rated health was also associated with lower life satisfaction, but, this association was moderated by neuroticism, such that those with poorrated health and low neuroticism did not show lower live satisfaction. Personality factors such as locus of control and neuroticism can influence the association between health and life satisfaction. The findings suggest further investigations of the role of personality characteristics in late life satisfaction and whether interventions aimed to increase personal control can improve life satisfaction in old age.The notion of lifelong stability of life satisfaction produced by a set-point equilibrium mechanism has been questioned in recent longitudinal studies of life satisfaction in the oldest-old. In a previous study we found a linear and largely homogenous decrease in life satisfaction across four measurement occasions during a 6-year period in individuals aged 80-98 (Berg et al.

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“…In a previous study we found a linear and largely homogenous decrease in life satisfaction across four measurement occasions during a 6-year period in individuals aged 80-98 (Berg et al 2009). Our finding confirms the few longitudinal studies of life satisfaction changes in the oldest-old (Baird et al 2010;Mroczek and Spiro 2005).…”

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“…This represents obvious implications in terms of optimum investments in health promotion projects, which results indicate may play an obvious role in improving active citizenship, with higher returns to scale when targeted at earlier old age citizens. It also hints at a rout for delaying age-related declines, particularly when considering the paper's results on the importance of health in determining quality of life, which in turn is found to declining with age, somewhat consistent with recent findings in developed countries such as Germany (Fujita and Diener 2005) or Sweden (Berg et al 2009). …”

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Assessing Health Endowment, Access and Choice Determinants: Impact on Retired Europeans’ (In)activity and Quality of Life

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Pereira

2014

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A future for the E.U., dominated by an ever-increasing population of retired citizens represents a major challenge to social and health policy in European countries. Under Rowe and Kahn's (Gerontol 37(4):433-440, 1997) perspective on positive aging, this paper is interested in exploring the role of health on citizens' active participation after retirement and social engagement to life and quality of life. This paper also aims at finding whether Sen's (Public health, ethics, and equity. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004) capability approach or cumulative disadvantage or advantage theory relative to the access to health also verifies in a context of multi-national developed economies. The first part of this study is therefore concerned with generating a health indicator that enables this, whilst controlling for individual heterogeneity in self-rated health responses from 10,859 retired individuals from the SHARE survey. Socioeconomic determinants of health are found not to be critical in determining health in such a developed context whilst cumulative advantage is found relevant for the positive aging of Europeans. Evidence is found that active engagement in activities and quality of life are most certainly a prerogative for the more educated and the healthier retirees, hinting a strategy for European policymakers: cumulative advantage, leveraged by education and health policy, might just be the longThis paper uses data from the early release 1 of SHARE 2004. This release is preliminary and may contain errors that will be corrected in later releases. The SHARE data collection has been primarily funded by the European Commission through the 5th framework programme (project QLK6-CT-2001-00360 in the thematic programme Quality of Life). Additional funding came from the US National Institute on Ageing (U01 AG09740-13S2, P01 AG005842, P01 AG08291, P30 AG12815, Y1-AG-4553-01 and OGHA 04-064). Data collection in Austria (through the Austrian Science Foundation, FWF), Belgium (through the Belgian Science Policy Office) and Switzerland (through BBW/OFES/UFES) was nationally funded. The SHARE data set is introduced in Borsch-Supan et al. (2005); methodological details are contained in Borsch-Supan and Jurges (2005

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“…In another analysis, between-person differences in pregnancy anxiety reflected differences in initial or baseline levels of pregnancy anxiety at 19 weeks of gestation. Within-person variation reflected deviations or changes over time from the baseline assessment (Berg et al, 2009). Weeks of gestation, the measure of time, was centered at 19 weeks.…”

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Pregnancy anxiety and prenatal cortisol trajectories

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Pregnancy anxiety is a potent predictor of adverse birth and infant outcomes. The goal of the current study was to examine one potential mechanism whereby these effects may occur by testing associations between pregnancy anxiety and maternal salivary cortisol on 4 occasions during pregnancy in a sample of 448 women. Higher mean levels of pregnancy anxiety over the course of pregnancy predicted steeper increases in cortisol trajectories compared to lower pregnancy anxiety. Significant differences between cortisol trajectories emerged between 30 to 31 weeks of gestation. Results remained significant when adjusted for state anxiety and perceived stress. Neither changes in pregnancy anxiety over gestation, nor pregnancy anxiety specific to only a particular time in pregnancy predicted cortisol. These findings provide support for one way in which pregnancy anxiety may influence maternal physiology and contribute to a growing literature on the complex biological pathways linking pregnancy anxiety to birth and infant outcomes.

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What matters, and what matters most, for change in life satisfaction in the oldest-old? A study over 6 years among individuals 80+

Cited by 98 publications

References 49 publications

Personality and personal control make a difference for life satisfaction in the oldest-old: findings in a longitudinal population-based study of individuals 80 and older

Personality and personal control make a difference for life satisfaction in the oldest-old: findings in a longitudinal population-based study of individuals 80 and older

Assessing Health Endowment, Access and Choice Determinants: Impact on Retired Europeans’ (In)activity and Quality of Life

Pregnancy anxiety and prenatal cortisol trajectories

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