Living with Ill-Health in Older Age: The Role of a Resilient Personality
Journal of Happiness StudiesPublished 21 October 2009
Gill Windle, Bob Woods, David Markland
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Significant main effects of resilience and ill-health on life satisfaction were found in all of the age-groups and the addition of the interaction term was associated with a significant increase in the size of the effect, indicating a resilient self moderated the negative effect of ill- health on subjective well-being.
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Psychological resources, Resilience, Ill-health, Subjective well-being, Moderator,
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