Happy and healthy: The hypothesis of correlation between subjective well-being and psychological health and its role in late adulthood

• Authors: IRYNA HORBAL
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Subjective well-being as an emotional-cognitive assessment of person’s life is an impor-tant aspect of psychological health and positive functioning in general. The hypothesis of connection between subjective well-being, psychological well-being and psychological health is presented. This correlation is very important in late adulthood for ensuring happy obsolescence but has some specifi c peculiarities due to the elderly people’s age and indivi-dual traits. Subjective well-being is a background for effective inner work of summarizing person’s previous life that is the main purpose in old age

Keywords

EN

subjective well-being, happiness, psychological well-being, psychological health, old-aged people, late adulthood

• Publisher: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
• Journal: Journal of Education Culture and Society
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 36-48

Dates

published

2020-01-12

Contributors

author

IRYNA HORBAL

• Ivan Franko Lviv national University Ukraine

Identifiers

DOI

10.15503/jecs20122.36.48