Purpose in Life Among Centenarian Offspring.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Purpose in life (PIL), a feeling of meaning and direction in life, is associated with favorable health outcomes including lower mortality and reduced risk of disease, disability, and cognitive impairment. Since centenarian offspring have been shown to have long health spans we sought to examine whether they have higher PIL than individuals without familial longevity.

Method

We compared PIL scores from the Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-Being in centenarian offspring from the New England Centenarian Study (N = 361, mean age = 82.0 years) with 3 referent groups: spouses, birth cohort-matched referents, and Health and Retirement Study (HRS) participants.

Results

Logistic regression analyses adjusted for age, sex, education, and marital status indicated grea

SUBMITTER: Marone S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7179803 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature