Soft skills and their relationship with life satisfaction and cognitive reserve in adulthood and older age.

Autor: Feraco T; Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padua, Italy. tommaso.feraco@unipd.it., Casali N; Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany. n.casali@csl.mpg.de., Carbone E; Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padua, Italy., Meneghetti C; Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padua, Italy., Borella E; Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padua, Italy., Carretti B; Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padua, Italy., Muffato V; Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padua, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: European journal of ageing [Eur J Ageing] 2024 Sep 09; Vol. 21 (1), pp. 25. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 09.
DOI: 10.1007/s10433-024-00820-2
Abstrakt: Soft skills are key factors for success in multiple contexts of daily life, as well as for life satisfaction, but little is known about their role in late adulthood and older age. In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationships of soft skills, as defined by the World Economic Forum, with two indicators of successful/healthy aging: life satisfaction and cognitive reserve. A sample of 435 adults aged 50 and over completed self-reported measures of soft skills, life satisfaction, and cognitive reserve. As control, fluid (reasoning) and crystalized (vocabulary) intelligence were assessed too, along with socio-demographic characteristics. A series of regression analyses showed that soft skills were positively related to both life satisfaction and, to a lower extent, cognitive reserve, above and beyond gender, age, and both fluid and crystallized intelligence. Interestingly, these associations were independent from participants' age. Overall, these results highlight the importance of considering soft skills also over the middle-late adult life course, due to the potential role of these individual qualities in supporting an individual's well-being and an active and engaged lifestyle, with implications for the promotion of a healthy aging.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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