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Your Age Decides Your Happiness Level, Now and in the Future!
Younger and middle-aged adults showed great illusion. Both groups believed life would be better than it turned out to be.
Older adults, on the other hand, were more realistic, and gave accurate predictions about how satisfied they would be. They were consistent in how they viewed the past compared with how they actually answered at that time.
The older adults appeared wiser with greater self-knowledge and a more astute sense of their past and future feelings; they may strive for acceptance of present circumstances as a way of regulating emotions, said Lachman.
The researchers concluded: Being realistic about the past and future (across all age groups) was associated with the most adaptive functioning across a broad array of variables including good health, a well-adjusted personality, supportive social relationships, high well-being and perceived control, and the absence of depression.
According to them, people who were doing well were less likely to imagine that things are going to get even better.
Lachman and her colleagues believe that their research has interesting implications for goal-setting and motivational behavior.
They say that their findings indicate that younger adults optimism about the future motivates them to try to achieve high levels of satisfaction.
The study shows that older adults are not as sanguine about the future as younger adults, perhaps because they have become aware or have experienced the height of life satisfaction and may realize this is as good as it gets.
The authors suggest that older adults may be satisfied as long as they can maintain the status quo while they prepare themselves for future losses.
These more negative expectations from older adults may be their way of bracing for an uncertain future, a perspective that can serve a protective function in the face of losses and that can have positive consequences if life circumstances turn out to be better than expected, says Lachman.
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