Pyc 4805 Ass.4

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1. INTRODUCTION
My article’s main goal is to discuss personal and environmental factors that can influence life satisfaction in late adulthood. I’ve included 2 articles relating to this topic. The first one being titled, ” Exploring positive and negative affect as key indicators of life satisfaction among centenarians :does cognitive performance matter?” labelled as appendix A. The second one being titled, ” Gender, pensions and social well-being in rural South Africa” labelled appendix B. Factors influencing life satisfaction among the elderly could include environmental characteristics such as the availability of social support, economic, cultural, political and health factors as well as locus of control, also personal traits such as education, gender, age, self-esteem, physical health, financial resources and a sense of connectedness.
Life satisfaction represents how satisfied people feel with their life in general as contrasted with positive affect which represents how they feel at a point in time. The findings of Schulz(1985) revealed that this is a long-term measure, than affect because it makes people think of their whole life, some factors which can influence life satisfaction which is sometimes defined as morale, or as how a person judges the quality of his or her life. A person who has achieved life satisfaction and who has a positive self-image is a person who has achieved psychological well-being despite the circumstances. The findings of Wilson and Cleary(1995) revealed that subjective well-being, happiness and life satisfaction are variously viewed as summary measures of quality of life. However well-being and quality of life are subject to multiple interpretations because different people experience different things differently. Life satisfaction all in all could be summed up as an operationalized feeling of contentment and a lack of dissatisfaction

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