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Culture, Aging, Self continuity and Life Satisfaction

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The present work examines how culture and age interact to influence self-continuity and life satisfaction.

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Specifically, we compared Canadian and Chinese young (17-26 years old) and older adults (60-88 years old) in their sense of self-continuity and life satisfaction. Consistent with past research, older adults reported greater self-continuity compared to their young counterparts, while young Chinese reported greater self-continuity than young Canadians.

In terms of life satisfaction, older adults scored higher than younger adults, while cultural differences illuminated that, this time, young Canadians reported higher life satisfaction than young Chinese. Although the data were cross-sectional, indirect effects analyses showed that self-continuity mediated the effect of age on life satisfaction in both cultural groups, with the indirect effect stronger among Canadians than among Chinese.

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These findings highlight the importance of considering culture and age when examining psychological outcomes, and the potential of self-continuity as a mechanism to enhance overall life satisfaction.

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Social Sciences · Social Sciences
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Cultural studies 72%
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