Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2010 Jan;65B(1):61-4. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbp095. Epub 2009 Nov 16.
The present study investigated whether several evaluative indicators of subjective well-being (SWB) and subjective health decline as death approaches and which of them shows a stronger decline. Using three-wave longitudinal data from deceased participants of the Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study (N = 1,360; age range 75-94 at T1= Time 1), we found a stronger decline in most evaluative indicators when plotted by distance-to-death relative to distance from birth. After controlling for background characteristics and physical and cognitive functioning, death-related decline was still found for SWB but not for subjective health. Implications are discussed regarding the well-being paradox and the yet unclear mechanisms that link evaluative indicators to the dying process.
本研究旨在探讨接近死亡时，多个主观幸福感（SWB）的评估指标和主观健康下降的程度，以及它们之间哪个下降得更明显。我们使用来自跨越性和纵向老龄化研究（N=1360；T1 时年龄范围为 75-94 岁）中死亡参与者的三波纵向数据，发现与从出生到死亡的距离相比，按距离死亡绘制时，大多数评估指标的下降幅度更大。在控制了背景特征以及身体和认知功能后，SWB 仍存在与死亡相关的下降，但主观健康则不然。本文讨论了幸福感悖论以及将评估指标与死亡过程联系起来的尚不清楚的机制。
