POSITIVE EVENT DIVERSITY AND AGE: TESTING CURVILINEAR ASSOCIATIONS
Patrick Klaiber, Patrick Hill, David Almeida, Anita DeLongis, Nancy Sin · 2023
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Patrick Klaiber and four co-authors test in 2023 whether the variety of good events in daily life, not just their count, shifts with age and mood. Older adults report good events more often than younger ones. Whether those events spread across many types was unknown.
Three large daily diary studies, with over four thousand adults in all, supply the data. An entropy score gauges how evenly good events spread across types. Variety peaks in middle age and dips for younger and older adults. On its own, variety tracks with higher positive mood. Among people rich in good events, though, wider variety links to worse mood. The pattern holds across ages, which complicates a simple more-is-better story.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Patrick Klaiber, Patrick Hill, David Almeida, Anita DeLongis, Nancy Sin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |