- Title
- A cohort analysis of subjective wellbeing and ageing: heading towards a midlife crisis
- Title
- ISER Working Paper, no. 2018/1
- Creator
- Otterbach, Steffen
- Creator
- Sousa-Poza, Alfonso
- Creator
- Moller, Valerie
- Subject
- Aging -- Social aspects Gerontology
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Book
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65401
- Identifier
- vital:28782
- Identifier
- ISBN 978086810641
- Description
- In this paper, we analyse how different domains of subjective wellbeing evolve within seven years in three different cohorts born 10 years apart. On average, general life satisfaction – as well as satisfaction with leisure time, social contacts and friends, and family – declines substantially between the ages of 15 and 44, with the most significant decrease taking place at a young age (early 20s). Nevertheless, trajectories among the three cohorts differ markedly, indicating that, ceteris paribus, responses on subjective wellbeing differ greatly between cohorts born just a decade apart. The results further indicate that the two older cohorts assess family life and social contacts more favourably than the youngest cohort.
- Format
- 39 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Language
- English
- Relation
- ISER Working Paper, no. 2018/1
- Relation
- Working Paper Series: Social Policy and Labour
- Rights
- Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; and Møller, Valerie
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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