Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being

Abstract

Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes.You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. licence. www.econstor.eu If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly. Even after major negative life events, most people often quickly adapt and return to their characteristic levels (Brickman & Campbell, 1971), and such 'set-points' are typically positive rather than neutral or negative (see Diener, Lucas, & Scollon, 2006). In this chapter, we review recent and ongoing endeavors that highlight the utility of focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture of well-being does not necessarily prevail. Drawing from notions of terminal decline, we argue that the changes in well-being that occur late in life provide a venue for the examination of between-person disparities and the factors that contribute to them. In a first step, we review empirical evidence to suggest that such steep end-of-life declines in well-being and psychological health may indee...

Changes in Depressive Symptoms in the Context of Disablement Processes: Role of Demographic Characteristics, Cognitive Function, Health, and Social Support

“…processes ( Diehr, Williamson, Burke, & Psaty, 2002 ;Gerstorf, Ram, Estabrook, et al, 2008 ;Gerstorf, Ram, Fauth, Schupp, & Wagner, 2009 ;Gerstorf, Ram, Röcke, et al 2008 ;Ghisletta, McArdle, & Lindenberger 2006 ;Johansson et al, 2004 ;Sliwinski et al, 2006 ;Thorvaldsson, Hofer, & Johansson, 2006 ;Wilson, Beck, Bienias, & Bennett, 2007 ;Wilson, Beckett, Bienias, Evans, & Bennett, 2003 ). Similarly, when tracked in relation to the onset of disability, the variable " timeto/from-disability " serves as a proxy for progressive disabilityrelated processes ( Ram et al, 2010 ).…”