Change in life satisfaction during adulthood: findings from the veterans affairs normative aging study.
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Summary
Growth-curve models indicated that life satisfaction peaked at age 65 and then declined, but showed significant individual differences in rate of change, and extraversion predicted variability in change, with higher levels associated with a high and flat life satisfaction trajectory.
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- article
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- 2005-01-01
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Keywords
Life satisfaction, Psychology, Normative, Marital status, Extraversion and introversion
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