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dc.contributor.authorvon Soest, Tilmann
dc.contributor.authorWagner, Jenny
dc.contributor.authorHansen, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorGerstorf, Denis
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-31T13:15:33Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-21T18:59:18Z
dc.date.available2018-01-31T13:15:33Z
dc.date.available2018-06-21T18:59:18Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.identifier.citationvon Soest TvS, Wagner, Hansen T, Gerstorf. Self-Esteem Across the Second Half of Life: The Role of Socioeconomic Status, Physical Health, Social Relationships, and Personality Factors . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2017en
dc.identifier.issn0022-3514
dc.identifier.issn0022-3514
dc.identifier.issn1939-1315
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/5977
dc.description.abstractSelf-esteem development across adulthood has been in the center of interest for some time now. However, not much is known about factors that shape self-esteem and its development in the second half of life and whether the factors differ with age and gender. To examine these questions, this study uses two-wave data from the population-based NorLAG study in Norway (N = 5,555; Mage = 58 years; 51% women) and combines self-report data on self-esteem and personality with registry-based information on socioeconomic status (education, income, unemployment), health problems (sick leave, lifetime history of disability), and social relationships (cohabitating partner, lifetime history of divorce and widowhood). Results from latent change score models revealed that self-esteem peaked at around age 50 and declined thereafter. More importantly, lower socioeconomic status, not having a cohabitating partner, unemployment, and disability were each uniquely associated with lower levels of self-esteem and/or steeper declines in self-esteem over the five-year study period. Over and above registry based information, personality characteristics were relevant, with a more mature personality being associated with higher self-esteem level. Emotionally stable participants also showed less pronounced declines in self-esteem. Moreover, associations of disability and of emotional stability with self-esteem level were weaker with advancing age. Among women, self-esteem level was more strongly associated with emotional stability and less strongly with openness, compared to men. Our findings demonstrate the utility of registry-based information and suggest that physical health, social relationships, and personality factors are in manifold ways uniquely associated with self-esteem and its development later in life.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Associationen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Personality and Social Psychology;Volume 114, Issue 6
dc.rightsPostprint version of published article. Copyright 2017 APA. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.en
dc.subjectSelf-esteemen
dc.subjectRegister dataen
dc.subjectOld agesen
dc.subjectPhysical healthen
dc.subjectRelationshipsen
dc.titleSelf-Esteem Across the Second Half of Life: The Role of Socioeconomic Status, Physical Health, Social Relationships, and Personality Factorsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2018-01-31T13:15:33Z
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000123
dc.identifier.cristin1454705
dc.source.journalJournal of Personality and Social Psychology


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