Correlates of Life Satisfaction of Aged Persons
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 54 (3) , 977-978
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1984.54.3.977
Abstract
This investigation examined the relationship of life satisfaction with such characteristics as sex, age, health status, level of education, marital status, and income status. The participants were 281 aged men ( n = 82) and women ( n = 199) who lived in a large southwestern metropolitan area. Analysis showed that life satisfaction was significantly related to the aged participants' education level, income, and health status.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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