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Relationships among Stress, Meaning in Life, and Happiness in Elders

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2012, 25(3), pp.17~30
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

Su-Gyun Seo 1,  백지영 1,  Youngsook Chong 1

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ABSTRACT

This study examined the relationships among stress, meaning in life, and happiness in elders. Happiness was measured by subjective and psychological well-being. Questionnaires measuring stress, meaning in life, subjective and psychological well-being were filled out by 160 elders. In correlation analysis, stress was significantly negatively correlated with subjective well-being but was not significantly correlated with psychological well-being. Meaning in life was significantly positively correlated with subjective and psychological well-being. In regression analysis, There was no interaction effects of stress and meaning in life on subjective and psychological well-being. Implications of these findings and limitations of the study were also discussed.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.