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The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 56:P364-P373 (2001)
© 2001 The Gerontological Society of America


RESEARCH ARTICLE

The Personal Experience of Aging, Individual Resources, and Subjective Well-Being

Nardi Steverinka, Gerben J. Westerhofb, Christina Bodeb and Freya Dittmann-Kohlib

a Departments of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
b Department of Psychogerontology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Nardi Steverink, Departments of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Groningen, University Hospital, P.O. Box 30.001, NL-9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands E-mail: n.steverink{at}int.azg.nl.

Decision Editor: Toni C. Antonucci, PhD

The personal experience of aging, the resources relevant to it, and the consequences for subjective well-being were investigated in a sample of 4034 Germans aged 40 to 85. The data revealed 3 dimensions of aging experiences as particularly relevant: (a) physical decline, (b) continuous growth, and (c) social loss. Not only being younger but also having better subjective health, higher income, less loneliness, higher education, and greater hope were negatively associated with physical decline and social loss and positively associated with continuous growth. The number of children participants had played no role. All three dimensions of the aging experience were also found to be related to both positive and negative affect and, with the exception of physical decline, to life satisfaction.




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