Time perspectives in technology-mediated reminiscing: effects of basic design decisions on subjective well-being

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Alarith Uhde ◽  
Marc Hassenzahl
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Basic Design ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Time Perspectives

Adolescents’ subjective well-being: The role of adolescents’ and mothers’ time perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1084-1104
Author(s):  
Cornelia Măirean ◽  
Loredana R Diaconu-Gherasim
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Events ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Positive Time ◽  
Negative Time

This study investigated the relations between adolescents’ and their mothers’ time perspectives and adolescents’ subjective well-being. The sample included 104 adolescents (72.1% girls), aged between 15 and 17 years and their mothers ( M = 42.67, SD = 5.66). Adolescents completed scales measuring their life events, time perspective, depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Mothers also fill in a scale assessing their time perspective. The results showed that adolescents who reported higher levels of negative events in their life also reported higher levels of depressive symptoms and lower levels of life satisfaction. Moreover, adolescents’ depressive symptoms were significantly positively associated with their past negative time perspective, but significantly negatively correlated with past positive time perspective. Further, adolescents’ life satisfaction was negatively associated with their past negative but positively with past positive time perspectives. Concerning maternal time perspective, only fatalist present perspective was significantly negatively related with adolescents’ life satisfaction. The findings provide evidence about the role of the adolescents’ and mothers’ time perspective in explaining the adolescents’ subjective well-being.

Conflict Avoidance in Old Age

GeroPsych ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Oberhauser ◽  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Eva-Marie Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Conflict Avoidance ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Adult Lifespan ◽  
Set Up

Abstract. Conflict avoidance increases across the adult lifespan. This cross-sectional study looks at conflict avoidance as part of a mechanism to regulate belongingness needs ( Sheldon, 2011 ). We assumed that older adults perceive more threats to their belongingness when they contemplate their future, and that they preventively react with avoidance coping. We set up a model predicting conflict avoidance that included perceptions of future nonbelonging, termed anticipated loneliness, and other predictors including sociodemographics, indicators of subjective well-being and perceived social support (N = 331, aged 40–87). Anticipated loneliness predicted conflict avoidance above all other predictors and partially mediated the age-association of conflict avoidance. Results suggest that belongingness regulation accounts may deepen our understanding of conflict avoidance in the second half of life.

Leisure Activities and the Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults in Croatia

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan ◽  
Tihana Brkljačić ◽  
Zvjezdana Prizmić Larsen ◽  
Andreja Brajša-Žganec ◽  
Renata Franc
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Perceived Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Financial Status

Abstract. Research shows that engagement in leisure activities promotes well-being among older adults. The objective of the current study was to examine the relationship between subjective well-being (flourishing) and leisure activities (total number of different activities in the previous year) in a sample of older adults in Croatia, thereby considering the variables of sex, marital status, financial status, and self-perceived health. The differences in the examined variables between the groups of older adults who reported to be engaged in new activities with those who did not were also examined. The sample of N = 169 older adults aged 60 years and above was drawn from a convenience sample of adult internet users in Croatia. Participants reported their self-perceived health and the number of leisure activities they engaged in over the previous year as well as completing the Flourishing Scale. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that older adults who were engaged in more various leisure activities, who perceived better financial status, and who were married reported higher levels of flourishing. A comparison of the two groups of older adults with and without engagement in leisure activities showed that those engaged in at least one leisure activity were more likely to be women, reported higher levels of flourishing, and perceived their own financial status as better. This study indicated that engaging in leisure activities in later life might provide beneficial effects for the well-being of older adults.

Intraindividual Variability and Stability of Affect and Well-Being

GeroPsych ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Röcke ◽  
Annette Brose
Keyword(s):  
Age Differences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Functional Implications ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Underlying Processes

Whereas subjective well-being remains relatively stable across adulthood, emotional experiences show remarkable short-term variability, with younger and older adults differing in both amount and correlates. Repeatedly assessed affect data captures both the dynamics and stability as well as stabilization that may indicate emotion-regulatory processes. The article reviews (1) research approaches to intraindividual affect variability, (2) functional implications of affect variability, and (3) age differences in affect variability. Based on this review, we discuss how the broader literature on emotional aging can be better integrated with theories and concepts of intraindividual affect variability by using appropriate methodological approaches. Finally, we show how a better understanding of affect variability and its underlying processes could contribute to the long-term stabilization of well-being in old age.

Different Future Time Perspectives Interplay in Predicting Life Satisfaction

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjie Lu ◽  
Angel Y. Li ◽  
Helene H. Fung ◽  
Klaus Rothermund ◽  
Frieder R. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Hong Kong Chinese ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Time Extension ◽  
Future Self ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. This study addresses prior mixed findings on the relationship between future time perspective (FTP) and well-being as well as examines the associations between three aspects of FTP and life satisfaction in the health and friendship domains. 159 Germans, 97 US Americans, and 240 Hong Kong Chinese, aged 19–86 years, completed a survey on future self-views (valence) and life satisfaction. They also reported the extent to which they perceived future time as expanded vs. limited (time extension) and meaningful (openness). Findings revealed that individuals with more positive future self-views had higher satisfaction. However, those who perceived their future as more meaningful or perceived more time in their future reported higher satisfaction even when future self-views were less positive.

Changing Patterns of Subjective Well-Being

1971 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 166, 170-172
Author(s):  
PETER LENROW
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Changing Patterns

Bullying at work, personality and subjective well-being.

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Plopa ◽  
Wojciech Plopa ◽  
Anna Skuzińska
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being
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