Background Individual subjective well-being (SWB) is essential for creating and maintaining
healthy, productive societies. The literature on SWB is vast and dispersed across multiple …

This chapter reviews the evolving field of evidence-based couple relationship education
(RE). RE is aimed at helping couples sustain a mutually satisfying, committed relationship. In …

This article updates and extends an earlier meta-analysis (Westerhof et al., 2014) on the
longitudinal effects of subjective aging (SA) on health outcomes. A systematic search in …

Personal views on aging, such as age stereotypes and subjective aging, can affect various
health outcomes in later life. For the past 20 years or so, a large body of experimental and …

Evidence is accumulating on the effects of subjective aging—that is, how individuals
perceive their own aging process—on health and survival in later life. The goal of this article …

The progressive aging of society, caused by profound demographic changes, brings with it
the necessity of confronting the subject of biases against the elderly. Ageism, in fact, can …

Humans are able to reflect on and interpret their own aging. Thus, as individuals grow older,
calendar age may become increasingly a subjective variable. This theoretical paper …

Loneliness concerns the subjective evaluation that the number of relationships is smaller
than the individual considers desirable or that the intimacy that the individual wishes for has …

Loneliness is an indicator of social well-being and pertains to the feeling of missing an
intimate relationship (emotional loneliness) or missing a wider social network (social …

Loneliness is an indicator of social well-being and pertains to the feeling of missing an
intimate relationship (emotional loneliness) or missing a wider social network (social …