Lebenszufriedenheit und depressive Symptome bei Frauen und Männern im Verlauf der zweiten Lebenshälfte

Wettstein, Markus; Spuling, Svenja M.

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“…Specifically, the group of older and very old adults, and particularly of women in old and advanced old age, reveal the steepest increase in depressive symptoms between 2017 and summer 2020. This is in line with other empirical findings demonstrating higher depressive symptoms among (older) women than men (Murphy et al, 2000; Sutin et al, 2013; Wettstein & Spuling, 2019) and with recent studies reporting stronger mental health disadvantages during the pandemic in women than in men (Bäuerle et al, 2020; Benke et al, 2020; Czymara et al, 2020; Entringer et al, 2020; Gilan et al, 2020; Möhring et al, 2020; Peters et al, 2020; Petzold et al, 2020; Röhr, Reininghaus, et al, 2020).…”

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“…We controlled for year of first study participation for two reasons: First, this variable could be indicative of sample selectivity, with individuals who entered the study in 1996 and still took part 2014 and thereafter probably revealing particularly high levels of well-being, health, resilience, and other resources. Second, this variable also comprises potential panel-conditioning effects or cohort trends in well-being, which might—according to previous findings (e.g., Gerstorf et al, 2015; Schilling, 2005; Sutin et al, 2013; Wettstein & Spuling, 2019)—occur.…”

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“…With regard to general age-related change trends in well-being, life satisfaction seems to peak at around age 65 and decline thereafter (Mroczek & Spiro, 2005; Wettstein & Spuling, 2019), particularly with increasing proximity to death (e.g., Gerstorf et al, 2008). Similarly, depressive symptoms generally decrease from midlife to early-old age (Sutin et al, 2013; Wettstein & Spuling, 2019), but increase thereafter (Burns et al, 2013; Chui et al, 2015; Wettstein et al, 2015).…”

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“…Regarding the so far available evidence on well-being among German adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems that younger or middle-aged adults’ well-being is most compromised (Bäuerle et al, 2020; Benke et al, 2020; Gilan et al, 2020; Peters et al, 2020; Schlomann et al, 2021; Wettstein & Wahl, in press), whereas older adults’ well-being has apparently been less affected or even remained unaltered (Röhr, Reininghaus, et al, 2020). However, age effects might be different for life satisfaction, which does not strongly vary between age groups in general, and for depressive symptoms, as individuals have a higher susceptibility for depression when entering old and very old age (Sutin et al, 2013; Wettstein & Spuling, 2019). Therefore, given the lack of prior evidence, we will investigate the role of age in an exploratory way without stating a specific a-priori hypothesis.…”

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Well-being trajectories of middle-aged and older adults and the corona pandemic: No “COVID-19 effect” on life satisfaction, but increase in depressive symptoms.

Wettstein¹,

Nowossadeck²,

Vogel³

2022

Psychology and Aging

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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has led to profound changes in individuals’ lives and might have meaningful implications for well-being. We investigated if and how two major indicators of well-being (life satisfaction and depressive symptoms) changed in Germany from a prepandemic measurement occasion (2017) to June/July 2020, the time of the fading first wave of COVID-19. This change was compared with prepandemic change between 2014 and 2017. We also analyzed whether change in well-being varied according to age, self-rated health, corona-specific attitudes, and subjective standard of living. Ten thousand seven-hundred and ninety three individuals had taken part in at least one of the measurement occasions between 2014 and 2020 (mean age in 2014: 64.30 years; SD = 11.58 years). Based on latent change score models controlling for baseline well-being and sociodemographic indicators, we found, across both time intervals (2014–2017, 2017–2020) and independent of individuals’ age, a small mean-level increase in life satisfaction. In contrast, depressive symptoms increased from 2017 to 2020, particularly among older participants, whereas they remained, on average, stable between 2014 and 2017. Individuals with a poorer self-rated health, who felt more threatened by the pandemic and whose subjective standard of living was lower revealed a decrease in life satisfaction and a steeper increase in depressive symptoms between 2017 and 2020. Our findings thus suggest that whereas life satisfaction remained quite stable, the pandemic was, already 3–4 months after its onset in Germany, accompanied by an increase in depressive symptoms, particularly among adults who were older, felt less healthy and were more concerned about COVID-19.

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Well-being trajectories of middle-aged and older adults and the corona pandemic: No “COVID-19 effect” on life satisfaction, but increase in depressive symptoms.

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Nowossadeck²,

Vogel³

2022

Psychology and Aging

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“…Life satisfaction revealed a small but significant overall mean-level increase between 2012 and 2020. This trend might reflect the complex, nonlinear age pattern of life satisfaction -or of well-being in general (Blanchflower & Oswald, 2004), with life satisfaction levels increasing between midlife and early-old age, but decreasing thereafter (Mroczek & Spiro, 2005;Wettstein & Spuling, 2019). General eudaimonic well-being decreased over time, although this decline was no longer significant when taking an additional COVID-19 related change component into account.…”

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trajectories of Well-Being of Middle-Aged and older Adults: A Multidimensional and Multidirectional Perspective

2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound changes of individuals’ everyday lives. Restrictions in social contacts and in leisure activities and the threatening situation of a spreading virus might have resulted in compromised well-being. At the same time, the pandemic could have promoted specific aspects of psychosocial well-being, e.g., due to intensified relationships with close persons during lockdown periods. We investigated this potentially multidimensional and multi-directional pattern of pandemic-specific change in well-being by analyzing changes over up to 8 years (2012-2020) in two broad well-being domains, hedonic well-being (life satisfaction) and eudaimonic well-being (one overarching eudaimonic well-being indicator as well as environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations with others, and self-acceptance), among 423 adults who were aged 40-98 years in 2012. By modelling longitudinal multilevel regression models and allowing for a measurement-specific intra-individual deviation component from the general slope in 2020, i.e. after the pandemic outbreak, we analyzed potential normative history-graded changes due to the pandemic. All mean-level history-graded changes were nonsignificant, but most revealed substantial interindividual variability, indicating that individuals’ pandemic-related well-being changes were remarkably heterogeneous. Only for personal growth and self-acceptance, adding a pandemic-related change component (and interindividual variability thereof) did not result in a better model fit. Individuals with poorer self-rated health at baseline in 2012 revealed a pandemic-related change toward lower life satisfaction. Our findings suggest that not all well-being domains - and not all individuals - are equally prone to “COVID-19 effects”, and even pandemic-associated gains were observed for some individuals in certain well-being domains.

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Wettstein

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Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging

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Lebenszufriedenheit und depressive Symptome bei Frauen und Männern im Verlauf der zweiten Lebenshälfte

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

Well-being trajectories of middle-aged and older adults and the corona pandemic: No “COVID-19 effect” on life satisfaction, but increase in depressive symptoms.

Well-being trajectories of middle-aged and older adults and the corona pandemic: No “COVID-19 effect” on life satisfaction, but increase in depressive symptoms.

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trajectories of Well-Being of Middle-Aged and older Adults: A Multidimensional and Multidirectional Perspective

German Ageing Survey (DEAS)

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