Well Being Across the Life Span! Aging results in when we can look back with satisfaction or regret, and forward with hope or dread. Educations seems to be the one thing people regret not accomplishing or not being more serious about. Can you truly say that you’re making the choices that someday you will remember with satisfaction?

Well Being Across the Life Span! While you’re growing up, you go through experiences that strengthen a sense of identity, confidence, and self esteem. But as life goes on you go through challenges such as: income shrinks, work is taken away, the body deteriorates, recall fades, energy wanes, family members and friends die or move away, and death is the end of the journey. Some say the over-65 years are the worst to endure. A study by Ronald Inglehart, conducted during the 1980’s with 170,000 representative samples from 16 nations, shows that older people feel more happiness and satisfaction than younger people.

Well-Being Across the Life Span cont.. We, as people, become more optimistic and respond more to positive activities as we age. Older adults’ amygdala, a neural processing center for emotions, shows low responses to negative activities and puts more attentiveness to positive responses. This shows how the positivity of later life increases due to the fact that growing older is an outcome of living, meaning mid life.

Well-Being Across the Life Span cont.. As we age, our mood becomes more “mellow”. People’s feelings for excitement becomes less as for depression, it also becomes less. Teenagers change their moods from happy to calm or gloomy to calm in less than an hour. Adults’ moods are less extreme but more enduring. As the Chinese would say, life becomes less of an emotional rollercoaster, more like paddling a boat through Narnia. I <3 anjo

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