caa a22 4500 46791690X CHVBK 20180406152905.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-004-5297-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-004-5297-2 Schilling Oliver German Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut Development of Life Satisfaction in Old Age: Another View on the "Paradox'' [Elektronische Daten] [Oliver Schilling] Empirical evidence of no age-related decline in life satisfaction (LS) in old age contrasts with frequently observed declines in the objective quality of elder people's lives and has therefore been labelled a "paradox'' and interpreted in terms of stability of LS in the respective gerontological discussion. However, as this evidence was mainly derived from cross-sectional age group comparisons, it does neither clearly indicate the absence of age-related mean level change, nor intra-individual stability of LS. Thus, the development of LS in middle and late adulthood was analysed longitudinally by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Based on single item measures of LS across 16 repeated panel waves with one per annum (1984-1999), autoregressive (quasi-Markov) structural equation models were used to estimate true score variances and intra-individual true score stability in one-year intervals. Research questions concerned (a) "monotonic'' stability and variance in a subsample of old respondents (born before 1925) as compared to the total sample and (b) change in stability and variances in old age. Results indicate high "monotonic'' true score stability of LS over the whole adult life span, whereas mean levels declined slightly in old age. No striking evidence for age-related changes in variance or stability was found. Springer, 2006 aging nationallicence happiness nationallicence life satisfaction nationallicence longitudinal studies nationallicence structural equation modelling nationallicence well-being nationallicence Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 75/2(2006-01-01), 241-271 0303-8300 75:2<241 2006 75 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-004-5297-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-004-5297-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schilling Oliver German Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 75/2(2006-01-01), 241-271 0303-8300 75:2<241 2006 75 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer