Well Being Across the Life Span!
• Aging results in when we can look back with
satisfaction or regret, and forward with hope
or dread.
• Educations seems to be the one thing people
regret not accomplishing or not being more
serious about.
• Can you truly say that you’re making the
choices that someday you will remember with
satisfaction?
Well Being Across the Life Span!
• While you’re growing up, you go through experiences
that strengthen a sense of identity, confidence, and self
esteem.
• But as life goes on you go through challenges such as:
income shrinks, work is taken away, the body
deteriorates, recall fades, energy wanes, family
members and friends die or move away, and death is
the end of the journey.
• Some say the over-65 years are the worst to endure.
• A study by Ronald Inglehart, conducted during the
1980’s with 170,000 representative samples from 16
nations, shows that older people feel more happiness
and satisfaction than younger people.
Well-Being Across the Life Span cont..
• We, as people, become more optimistic and respond
more to positive activities as we age.
• Older adults’ amygdala, a neural processing center
for emotions, shows low responses to negative
activities and puts more attentiveness to positive
responses.
• This shows how the positivity of later life increases
due to the fact that growing older is an outcome of
living, meaning mid life.
Well-Being Across the Life Span cont..
• As we age, our mood becomes more
“mellow”.
• People’s feelings for excitement becomes less
as for depression, it also becomes less.
• Teenagers change their moods from happy to
calm or gloomy to calm in less than an hour.
• Adults’ moods are less extreme but more
enduring.
• As the Chinese would say, life becomes less of
an emotional rollercoaster , more like paddling
a boat through Narnia.
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