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The Multidimensional Structure of Subjective Well-Being In Later Life
Subjective well-being can be measured in different ways, depending on the conceptual perspective one adopts. Hedonic well-being, emphasising emotions and evaluation, is often contrasted with eudemonic well-being, stressing self-actualisation and autonomy. In this paper we investigate the background,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4102758/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25089162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12062-014-9092-9 |
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description | Subjective well-being can be measured in different ways, depending on the conceptual perspective one adopts. Hedonic well-being, emphasising emotions and evaluation, is often contrasted with eudemonic well-being, stressing self-actualisation and autonomy. In this paper we investigate the background, structure and compatibility of empirical measures of hedonic and eudemonic well-being in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). We use a confirmatory factor approach to investigate the internal of structure of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D), Satisfaction with Life scale (SWLS) and CASP, a measure of quality of life in old age. In a second step, we examine the higher order structure of well-being using these measures. Next to highlighting specific issues about the structure of these measures in connection to older populations, we illustrate that a threefold structure, distinguishing affective, cognitive and eudemonic aspects of well-being, is more informative than the two dimensional hedonic and eudemonic well-being that is often propagated. |
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spelling | pubmed-41027582014-07-30 The Multidimensional Structure of Subjective Well-Being In Later Life Vanhoutte, Bram J Popul Ageing Article Subjective well-being can be measured in different ways, depending on the conceptual perspective one adopts. Hedonic well-being, emphasising emotions and evaluation, is often contrasted with eudemonic well-being, stressing self-actualisation and autonomy. In this paper we investigate the background, structure and compatibility of empirical measures of hedonic and eudemonic well-being in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). We use a confirmatory factor approach to investigate the internal of structure of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D), Satisfaction with Life scale (SWLS) and CASP, a measure of quality of life in old age. In a second step, we examine the higher order structure of well-being using these measures. Next to highlighting specific issues about the structure of these measures in connection to older populations, we illustrate that a threefold structure, distinguishing affective, cognitive and eudemonic aspects of well-being, is more informative than the two dimensional hedonic and eudemonic well-being that is often propagated. Springer Netherlands 2014-01-29 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4102758/ /pubmed/25089162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12062-014-9092-9 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 |
spellingShingle | Article Vanhoutte, Bram The Multidimensional Structure of Subjective Well-Being In Later Life |
title | The Multidimensional Structure of Subjective Well-Being In Later Life |
title_full | The Multidimensional Structure of Subjective Well-Being In Later Life |
title_fullStr | The Multidimensional Structure of Subjective Well-Being In Later Life |
title_full_unstemmed | The Multidimensional Structure of Subjective Well-Being In Later Life |
title_short | The Multidimensional Structure of Subjective Well-Being In Later Life |
title_sort | multidimensional structure of subjective well-being in later life |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4102758/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25089162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12062-014-9092-9 |
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