Individual values and spirituality and their meaning for affective well-being and engagement with life in very old age
Reissmann, M.; Storms, A.; Woopen, C. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2021 · Heft 2 · S. 85 bis 92
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BackgroundAccording to models of cognitive discrepancy, value-based preferences as a central reference frame for subjective evaluations of actual living conditions are crucial to understand quality of life (QoL) outcomes [29, 30]. Extending previous perspectives on QoL, the challenges and potentials (CHAPO) model of QoL of the very old [43] thus considers the system of individual goals and values an important resource for QoL outcomes. Addressing QoL outcomes beyond the hedonic realm, the model also includes eudaimonic conceptions of QoL. These are expected to be of particular relevance in very old age as older…