Well Being Across the Life Span!

1. 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?

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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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