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Life satisfaction and social desirability across the late life span: What relationship?

Auteurs: Maria Chiara Fastame, Maria Pietronilla Penna, Paul Kenneth Hitchcott

Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 1/2015

Abstract

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.

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Titel: Life satisfaction and social desirability across the late life span: What relationship?
Auteurs: Maria Chiara Fastame
Maria Pietronilla Penna
Paul Kenneth Hitchcott
Publicatiedatum: 01-01-2015
Uitgeverij: Springer International Publishing
Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-014-0750-4

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