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Perceived Accomplishment in Later Life: The Influence of Past Decisions Between Family and Work
Whereas previous studies have investigated life regrets, little attention has been paid to the important accomplishments older adults include in their autobiographic life narratives. Phenomenon such as the memory positivity effect suggest that accomplishments should be observed. We used a Health and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679287/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.103 |
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description | Whereas previous studies have investigated life regrets, little attention has been paid to the important accomplishments older adults include in their autobiographic life narratives. Phenomenon such as the memory positivity effect suggest that accomplishments should be observed. We used a Health and Retirement Study 2017 Life History Mail Survey (N = 2,165) to examine the characteristics of participants over age 65 who reported accomplishments (max = 3), what was reported, and whether early-life decisions about balancing family and work are associated with the reports. Women, whites, and people with at least high school education and normal cognitive status were more likely to report accomplishments (67%). We categorized reports as family-related (39%), personal (19%), combined family/personal (25%) or other (16%). Multinominal logistic regression models revealed that participants who themselves favored family over work in early life or whose spouse decided for family, were more likely to report family-related accomplishments. |
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spelling | pubmed-86792872021-12-17 Perceived Accomplishment in Later Life: The Influence of Past Decisions Between Family and Work Park, Jeongsoo Larkina, Marina Smith, Jacqui Innov Aging Abstracts Whereas previous studies have investigated life regrets, little attention has been paid to the important accomplishments older adults include in their autobiographic life narratives. Phenomenon such as the memory positivity effect suggest that accomplishments should be observed. We used a Health and Retirement Study 2017 Life History Mail Survey (N = 2,165) to examine the characteristics of participants over age 65 who reported accomplishments (max = 3), what was reported, and whether early-life decisions about balancing family and work are associated with the reports. Women, whites, and people with at least high school education and normal cognitive status were more likely to report accomplishments (67%). We categorized reports as family-related (39%), personal (19%), combined family/personal (25%) or other (16%). Multinominal logistic regression models revealed that participants who themselves favored family over work in early life or whose spouse decided for family, were more likely to report family-related accomplishments. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8679287/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.103 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Park, Jeongsoo Larkina, Marina Smith, Jacqui Perceived Accomplishment in Later Life: The Influence of Past Decisions Between Family and Work |
title | Perceived Accomplishment in Later Life: The Influence of Past Decisions Between Family and Work |
title_full | Perceived Accomplishment in Later Life: The Influence of Past Decisions Between Family and Work |
title_fullStr | Perceived Accomplishment in Later Life: The Influence of Past Decisions Between Family and Work |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceived Accomplishment in Later Life: The Influence of Past Decisions Between Family and Work |
title_short | Perceived Accomplishment in Later Life: The Influence of Past Decisions Between Family and Work |
title_sort | perceived accomplishment in later life: the influence of past decisions between family and work |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679287/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.103 |
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