Delineating terminal change in subjective well-being and subjective health

Yuval Palgi; Amit Shrira; Menachem Ben-Ezra; Tal Spalter; Dov Shmotkin; Gitit Kavé

doi:10.1093/geronb/gbp095

Delineating terminal change in subjective well-being and subjective health

Yuval Palgi
, Amit Shrira
, Menachem Ben-Ezra
, Tal Spalter
, Dov Shmotkin
, Gitit Kavé

School of Social Work

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Abstract

The present study investigated whether several evaluative indicators of subjective well-being (SWB) and subjective health decline as death approaches and which of them shows a stronger decline. Using three-wave longitudinal data from deceased participants of the Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study (N = 1,360; age range 75-94 at T1= Time 1), we found a stronger decline in most evaluative indicators when plotted by distance-to-death relative to distance from birth. After controlling for background characteristics and physical and cognitive functioning, death-related decline was still found for SWB but not for subjective health. Implications are discussed regarding the well-being paradox and the yet unclear mechanisms that link evaluative indicators to the dying process.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	61-64
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
Volume	65 B
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbp095
State	Published - Jan 2010

Keywords

CALAS
Self-rated health
Subjective well-being
Terminal change

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