Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle?

We present evidence that psychological well-being is U-shaped through life. A difficulty with research on this issue is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations may have been born in, say, particularly good or bad times). First, using data on 500,000 randomly sampled A...

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Volume:	66
Main Author:	Blanchflower, David G Oswald, Andrew J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Professional Academic
Place of publication:	OXFORD Elsevier Ltd 2008 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD Elsevier Elsevier Science Publishers
published in:	Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 66; no. 8; pp. 1733 - 1749
Data of publication:	2008
ISSN:	0277-9536 1873-5347
EISSN:	1873-5347
Discipline:	Medicine Public Health Social Sciences (General)
Series:	Social Science & Medicine
Subjects:	Happiness Well-being Life-course Cohorts Mental health Cross-national Aging Depression General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Social Sciences Life Sciences & Biomedicine Biomedical Social Sciences Social Sciences, Biomedical Science & Technology Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Public health. Hygiene Miscellaneous Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Adult and adolescent clinical studies Psychopathology. Psychiatry Mood disorders Biological and medical sciences Medical sciences Age Factors United States Developing Countries - statistics & numerical data Europe Humans Life Change Events Middle Aged Male Mental Health Developed Countries - statistics & numerical data Personal Satisfaction Regression Analysis Aged, 80 and over Adult Female Aged Cohort Effect Quality of Life - psychology Happiness Aging Well-being Cohorts Depression Life-course General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) Mental health Cross-national Models Psychological aspects Developing countries Index Medicus United States Europe Happiness Well-being Life-course Cohorts Mental health Cross-national Aging Depression General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) well-being PERSPECTIVE mental health TIME NEGATIVE AFFECT cross-national SATISFACTION UNHAPPINESS happiness DISABILITY ECONOMICS aging depression life-course cohorts UNEMPLOYMENT AGE Mood disorder Human Crosscultural study Senescence Questionnaire Ageing Curve Cross-national study Cohort study Social medicine Psychological well-being Public health
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CODEN:	SSMDEP
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