Personality and Well-being Across the Life-Span

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Well Being

New Territories of Positive Life-Span Development: Wisdom and Life Longings

2009 ◽  
pp. 170-184
Author(s):  
Susanne Scheibe ◽  
Ute Kunzmann ◽  
Paul B. Baltes
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Life Span Development ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Life Course

In search for concepts that help understand how individuals strive for growth and perfection within the boundaries and constraints of human lives, we describe theory and research on the concepts of wisdom, or expert knowledge about human nature and the life course, and Sehnsucht (life longings), the recurring and strong desire for ideal (utopian), alternative states and expressions of life. Both represent relatively new concepts on the agenda of lifespan research, originating from an interest in identifying major topics of public and humanist discourse about the potentials and constraints of life-span development and finding ways to measure them with the methods of normative psychological science. Despite their complexity and multiple meanings, progress has been made in the theory-driven operationalization of wisdom and life longings, allowing new insights into their ontogenesis and role for positive development. Emerging research shows that wisdom and life longings do not directly promote a hedonic life orientation or happiness: neither the insight that life is incomplete (wisdom) nor the experience of this incompleteness (life longings) is compatible with feelings of unequivocal joy and pleasure. Yet, there is emerging evidence that they contribute to other aspects of positive development, emphasizing personal growth, meaning, and the aligning of one's own and other's well-being. We suggest that future research should focus on the links of wisdom and life longings with multiple developmental outcomes and the possible interplay of both concepts in promoting positive development.

scholarly journals Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Wunder ◽  
Andrea Wiencierz ◽  
Johannes Schwarze ◽  
Helmut Kuechenhoff ◽  
Sara Kleyer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Well Being

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Puberty as a Window of Opportunity for Impacting Health and Well-Being Across the Life Span

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorah D. Dorn ◽  
Camelia E. Hostinar ◽  
Elizabeth J. Susman ◽  
Panagiota Pervanidou
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Health And Well Being

World benevolence beliefs and well-being across the life span.

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Poulin ◽  
Roxane Cohen Silver
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Well Being

Planning and Control Processes Across the Life Span: An Overview

1993 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margie E. Lachman ◽  
Orah R. Burack
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Control Processes ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
Integrate Control ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control ◽  
Future Work

We present a brief overview of the areas of planning and control to provide a context for the individual papers in this special issue. For both topics we consider development across the life span, subgroup variations (e.g. by gender), and correlates (e.g. well-being). We then explore potential linkages between planning and control. Our attempt to integrate control and planning is meant to stimulate future work which considers these processes together from a life span perspective.

The Strange Coincidence of Gregor Mendel and Louis Pasteur: Both Scientific Geniuses Were Born in 1822

1995 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-61
Author(s):  
Luigi Gedda
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Genetic Knowledge ◽  
Gregor Mendel ◽  
The Way

This year, the French are commemorating the centenary of the death of their distinguished countryman Louis Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist. Yet few people in France or elsewhere will be aware of a fact which I recently discovered: Louis Pasteur and the Czech geneticist Gregor Mendel were born in the same year - 1822. That Pasteur and Mendel are exact contemporaries is a most significant coincidence, for their respective careers symbolize the parallel and contiguous development of medical and genetic knowledge in the nineteenth century. This in turn paved the way for man to discuss, investigate, increase and spread understanding of human reproduction, disease and life-span, and to utilize scientific understanding of these subjects to increase the well-being of mankind in the twentieth century. Indeed, the human relevance of these biomedical discoveries caused them to eclipse those of other branches of knowledge in this century.

scholarly journals Fostering antioxidant defences: up-regulation of antioxidant genes or antioxidant supplementation?

2007 ◽  
Vol 98 (S1) ◽  
pp. S36-S40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Viña ◽  
Mari-Carmen Gomez-Cabrera ◽  
Consuelo Borras
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Normal Diet ◽  
Vitamin Supplementation ◽  
Antioxidant Vitamin ◽  
Antioxidant Defences ◽  
Linus Pauling ◽  
Antioxidant Genes ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Endogenous Antioxidant

Vitamins have traditionally been considered as food components that are required in the normal diet to prevent deficiencies. However, a newer concept of the function of vitamins in nutrition has taken them beyond simply prevention of deficiency symptoms. This concept considers that many vitamins, when taken in relatively larges doses, have important functions beyond preventing deficiencies. Linus Pauling was instrumental in putting forward this concept, particularly for vitamin C. Thus, relatively high intakes of vitamins, and in particular vitamins C and E which are antioxidants, are considered to be healthy for the human population. This may be true in some special situations such as, for instance, the prevention of Alzheimer's disease progression. However, recent epidemiological evidence has not supported the claim that antioxidant vitamins increase well-being and prolong life span. In fact, vitamin supplementation may be even detrimental and reduce life span. A new concept that we would like to put forward is that nutrients up-regulate the endogenous antioxidant defences. This is particularly true in the case of phytoestrogens for example, which bind to oestrogen receptors and eventually up-regulate the expression of antioxidant genes. In this review we discuss the pros and cons of antioxidant vitamin supplementation and also the possibility that the ingestion of some nutrients may be very effective in increasing antioxidant defences by up-regulating the activity of antioxidant enzymes which are normally present in the cell.

scholarly journals The Empower Action Model: A Framework for Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences by Promoting Health, Equity, and Well-Being Across the Life Span

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditi Srivastav ◽  
Melissa Strompolis ◽  
Amy Moseley ◽  
Kelsay Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Action Model ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

The empower action model addresses childhood adversity as a root cause of disease by building resilience across multiple levels of influence to promote health, equity, and well-being. The model builds on the current evidence around adverse childhood experiences and merges important frameworks within key areas of public health—the socio-ecological model, protective factors, race equity and inclusion, and the life course perspective. The socio-ecological model is used as the foundation for this model to highlight the multilevel approach needed for improvement in public health. Five key principles that build on the protective factors literature are developed to be applied at each of the levels of the socio-ecological model: understanding, support, inclusion, connection, and growth. These principles are developed with actions that can be implemented across the life span. Finally, actions suggested with each principle are grounded in the tenets of race equity and inclusion, framing all actionable steps with an equity lens. This article discusses the process by which the model was developed and provides steps for states and communities to implement this tool. It also introduces efforts in a state to use this model within county coalitions through an innovative use of federal and foundation funding.

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