Journal
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY
Volume 83, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103869
Keywords
End of history illusion; Life satisfaction; Longitudinal
Categories
Funding
- Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network
- National Institute on Aging
Ask authors/readers for more resources
According to the 'end of history illusion' (EOHI) individuals underestimate the amount of future change they will experience. Using results from a three-wave longitudinal study of American adults (N = 2390, mean age = 55.31 years, 56% female), we examined ratings of recollected past (10 years prior), current, and anticipated future (10 years later) life satisfaction at Wave 2, as well as current life satisfaction at Wave 1 (nine years earlier) and at Wave 3 (nine years later). Younger adults typically underestimated their past and overestimate their future LS, whereas older adults tended to underestimate their future LS. Contrary to the EOHI, most individuals either were accurate or anticipated too much change into the future, rather than too little. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available