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Loving Others: The Impact of Compassionate Love on Later-Life Psychological Well-being

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  • Eva Kahana
  • Tirth R Bhatta
  • Boaz Kahana
  • Nirmala Lekhak
  • Deborah S Carr

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ObjectivesExisting scholarship in social gerontology has paid relatively little attention to broader loving emotions, such as compassionate and altruistic love, as potentially meaningful mechanisms for improving later-life psychological well-being outside a family framework.MethodDrawing from a 3-wave longitudinal survey of community-dwelling older residents (n = 334) of Miami, Florida, we utilized generalized estimating equation models to examine the influence of changes in compassionate love (i.e., feeling love toward other persons and experiencing love from others) on depressive symptoms over time. We also explored cross-sectional relationship between compassionate love and positive and negative affects.ResultsAn increase in the feeling of being loved (β = −0.77, p

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  • Eva Kahana & Tirth R Bhatta & Boaz Kahana & Nirmala Lekhak & Deborah S Carr, 2021. "Loving Others: The Impact of Compassionate Love on Later-Life Psychological Well-being," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 76(2), pages 391-402.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:76:y:2021:i:2:p:391-402.
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