The Best Years of Life: A Study of Older Hong Kong Chinese

Autor/in	Lee, Jik-Joen
Titel	The Best Years of Life: A Study of Older Hong Kong Chinese
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 100 (2011) 3, S.539-562 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-010-9619-2
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Foreign Countries; Older Adults; Case Studies; Social Indicators; Measures (Individuals); Experience; Life Satisfaction; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Ausland; Älterer Erwachsener; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Messdaten; Erfahrung; Lebensvollendung; Hongkong
Abstract	This study examines elderly respondents' self-reported best years of life and the reasons to support their choices. A total of 842 Chinese people aged 60 and over participated in this cross-sectional study, giving an overall response rate of 91%. This study used information from an index entitled "The Best Years of Life", which was developed in 1975 by the USA's National Council on the Aging. The conceptual framework was informed by Daniel J. Levinson's developmental theory. A little more than 50 percent of the respondents said the best years of life had been in pre-adulthood and early adulthood (ages 10-49), while about 23.5 percent the best years had been in late adulthood (age 60-plus). The patterns of the respondents' self-reported best years of life showed considerable diversity, and no single pattern can be considered typical. The respondents' unique personal experience may account for this. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10