What Dutch women of different ages regret most
The present study examined the relationship between age, regret, well-being, and three categories of current interpretation of regretted events (not having come to terms, putting the best face on it, and coming to terms) in a large sample (n = 3579) of women varying in age from 16 to 81. Although the occurrence of regret was not related to age, its interpretation was: with age, both a growing number of women interpreted their regret experience as something they could not come to terms with also a growing number of women were able to do so. In addition, as women were more able to come to terms... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 |
| Reihe/Periodikum: | Dijkstra , P & Barelds , D P H 2008 , ' What Dutch women of different ages regret most ' , Journal of Research in Personality , vol. 42 , no. 6 , pp. 1663-1667 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2008.07.007 |
| Schlagwörter: | Regret / Well-being / Women / LIFE / SCALE / GOALS |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28620099 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/bbb18604-5d04-41cf-9ae6-5a3c5efc7129 |
The present study examined the relationship between age, regret, well-being, and three categories of current interpretation of regretted events (not having come to terms, putting the best face on it, and coming to terms) in a large sample (n = 3579) of women varying in age from 16 to 81. Although the occurrence of regret was not related to age, its interpretation was: with age, both a growing number of women interpreted their regret experience as something they could not come to terms with also a growing number of women were able to do so. In addition, as women were more able to come to terms with their regrets, they reported higher well-being. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.