Eudaemonic well-being in midlife women: Change in and correspondence between concurrent and retrospective reports

Suzanne C. Segerstrom; Tessa R. Blevins; Kate A. Leger; Rebecca G. Reed; Leslie J. Crofford

doi:10.1525/collabra.21433

Eudaemonic well-being in midlife women: Change in and correspondence between concurrent and retrospective reports

Suzanne C. Segerstrom, Tessa R. Blevins, Kate A. Leger, Rebecca G. Reed, Leslie J. Crofford

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Concurrent and retrospective reports correspond for personality, affect, and coping. The present study described how autonomy, competence, and relatedness components of eudaemonic well-being (EWB) change over days and months and tested correspondences of daily and retrospective reports between and within people. Midlife and older (50-75 years) women (N = 200) completed online diaries daily for 1 week for 9 bursts over 2 years and answered questionnaires at the end of each burst (burst n = 1,529). Multilevel models partialed levels of variance and tested correspondence. Women varied in their daily experiences of EWB but did not vary substantially between bursts. Burst-level diary means and questionnaire responses corresponded between people, but changes within people were less strongly related. The daily, but not monthly, time scale of change is important for capturing within-person changes in EWB. Finding EWB change over months to years may depend on measurement designed to capture medium-term change.

Original language	English
Article number	21433
Journal	Collabra: Psychology
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.21433
State	Published - Mar 25 2021

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This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01-AG046116, K99-AG056635, UL1TR001998).

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Diary
Eudaemonic well-being
Longitudinal burst design
Psychological well-being
Self-report

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