caa a22 4500 606177892 CHVBK 20210128100754.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11136-014-0750-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11136-014-0750-4 Life satisfaction and social desirability across the late life span: What relationship? [Elektronische Daten] [Maria Fastame, Maria Penna, Paul Hitchcott] Purpose: The current study mainly aimed to investigate the impact of social desirability in predicting life satisfaction in cognitively healthy elderly people. Methods: One hundred and seventy-eight 65- to 99-year-old adults were recruited in Sardinia, an Italian Isle known for the longevity of its inhabitants, and were presented a battery of questionnaires assessing subjective well-being, metacognitive efficiency, depressive symptoms and socially desirable responding style. Results: An analysis of covariance and a hierarchical regression analysis showed that the social desirable style does have a marginal impact on self-referent measures of life satisfaction. Indeed, only 5% of the variance in life satisfaction was predicted by self-rated social desirability. Conclusions: Social desirability does not seem to bias the self-assessment of an important aspect of quality of life in late adulthood. That is, life satisfaction of Italian elderly people does not seem to be impacted by the tendency to present themselves in a more favourable way. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014 Ageing nationallicence Life satisfaction nationallicence Social desirability nationallicence Metacognition nationallicence Well-being nationallicence Fastame Maria Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123, Cagliari, Italy aut Penna Maria Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123, Cagliari, Italy aut Hitchcott Paul Department of Psychology, Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, SO14 0YN, Southampton, UK aut Quality of Life Research Springer International Publishing 24/1(2015-01-01), 241-244 0962-9343 24:1<241 2015 24 11136 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-014-0750-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-014-0750-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fastame Maria Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123, Cagliari, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Penna Maria Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Via Is Mirrionis 1, 09123, Cagliari, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hitchcott Paul Department of Psychology, Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, SO14 0YN, Southampton, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Springer International Publishing 24/1(2015-01-01), 241-244 0962-9343 24:1<241 2015 24 11136