Flexibility as a Mediator between Personality and Well-Being in Older and Younger Adults: Findings from Questionnaire Data and a Behavioral Task

Autor:	Priska Steenhaut, Ineke Demeyer, Rudi De Raedt, Gina Rossi
Přispěvatelé:	Psychology, Brain, Body and Cognition, Personality and Psychopathology, Psychopathology and Information Processing in Older Adults, Metajuridica, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Adult Male Aging Mindfulness media_common.quotation_subject AGE-DIFFERENCES Social Sciences MINI-MENTAL-STATE Acceptance and commitment therapy VALIDATION 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY INFLEXIBILITY 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Quality of life Surveys and Questionnaires Adaptation Psychological MINDFULNESS EMOTION Humans Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Psychology Aged COMMITMENT THERAPY media_common Aged 80 and over Behavior Mechanism (biology) 05 social sciences Flexibility (personality) ACCEPTANCE Middle Aged DEPRESSION Ageing Well-being Quality of Life Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	EXPERIMENTAL AGING RESEARCH
ISSN:	1096-4657 0361-073X
DOI:	10.1080/0361073x.2020.1805935
Popis:	BACKGROUND: Personality is a predictor of subjective well-being in older and younger adults, but less is known about the underlying mechanisms. One possible mechanism is psychological flexibility, which is the ability to keep an open mind-set in order to make flexible choices adapted to the situation at hand. METHODS: We recruited 60 younger and 60 older adults and measured personality and well-being by questionnaires. To assess psychological flexibility we used questionnaires and a behavioral task assessing flexibility in information acquisition when making choices. RESULTS: Based on indirect effect analysis of the questionnaire data, in line with former research, our data show that in both age groups, the relationship between personality and well-being runs through psychological flexibility. CONCLUSION: This implies that training psychological flexibility may be a promising approach to increase well-being in both older and younger adults. This effect could not be demonstrated with our choice flexibility task, thus more research is needed to uncover why this could not be measured at the behavioral level.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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