Harlow R E, Cantor N
Program in Experimental Psychology (Quantitative), New York University, New York 10003, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1996 Dec;71(6):1235-49. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.71.6.1235.
The authors examined in 618 older Americans the extent to which individual levels of life satisfaction were connected to participation in the shared tasks of late adulthood (e.g., community service and social life participation). Participation in these shared tasks was an important predictor of life satisfaction, controlling for health, self-reported vitality, social support, individual differences in congeniality, organizational affiliation, and prior levels of satisfaction. Social life participation was particularly important for retirees in predicting life satisfaction, more so than for study participants who were still able to derive enjoyment from work activity. This difference between retired and nonretired subjects was especially pronounced for men and illustrates how the important domains of activity shift with sociocultural expectations and opportunities of a given life phase.
作者对618名美国老年人进行了研究，考察个体生活满意度水平与参与老年期共同任务（如社区服务和社会生活参与）之间的关联程度。在控制了健康状况、自我报告的活力、社会支持、性格上的个体差异、组织归属以及先前的满意度水平后，参与这些共同任务是生活满意度的一个重要预测指标。社会生活参与对于退休人员预测生活满意度尤为重要，比那些仍能从工作活动中获得乐趣的研究参与者更为重要。退休和未退休受试者之间的这种差异在男性中尤为明显，这说明了活动的重要领域是如何随着特定生命阶段的社会文化期望和机会而转变的。
