Health rating and life satisfaction in the later middle years.
The empirical linkage between self-rating of health and feelings of well-being in regard to overall life satisfaction, community satisfaction, job satisfaction, and marital satisfaction were assessed using data from a mail survey of 1,650 men and women who were 50 to 55 years of age. Health rating was a significant correlate of all four of the satisfaction measures. Moreover, there was little evidence to suggest that the relationship of health to expressed well-being varied by gender, education, marital status, income, number of relatives in the area, number of friends nearby, or frequency of leisure involvement.
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University.
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D001290:Attitude; D004522:Educational Status; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006262:Health; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires