HOW SPOUSAL BEREAVEMENT SHAPES LIFE SATISFACTION: STABILITY AND CHANGE ACROSS HISTORICAL TIME
Urmimala Ghose, Michael Krämer, David Richter, Gert Wagner, Frank Infurna, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf · 2023
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Seven researchers track how spousal bereavement affects life satisfaction across decades in Germany in a paper from 2023. Losing a spouse is among the most stressful events of older age. The team used a long-running national panel with yearly surveys since 1984. More than two thousand widowed people were followed from five years before to five years after the loss.
People widowed in the 2000s and 2010s declined less overall than those widowed in the 1980s and 1990s. Smaller dips before the loss and faster recovery afterward drove the improvement. The immediate reaction phase may even have grown slightly sharper. The authors discuss social and societal changes that could explain the shift.
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| CREATOR | Urmimala Ghose, Michael Krämer, David Richter, Gert Wagner, Frank Infurna, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |