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Penalty versus premium: social disposition differentiates life satisfaction among living-alone immigrant and native-born older adults — findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

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dc.contributor.authorShen, Jing
dc.contributor.authorTong, Hongmei
dc.contributor.authorFuller-Thomson, Esme
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-14T17:35:20Z
dc.date.available2025-03-14T17:35:20Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractUsing data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, in this study we provide an alternative explanation for the gap of life satisfaction between living-alone immigrants and Canadian-born older adults. Based on the Big-Five personality traits, we use the latent class analysis to generate two types of social dispositions, social independence and social dependence. With social dispositions taken into account, living alone contributes to life satisfaction in opposite ways for immigrant and Canadian-born older adults, by playing a negative role for the former group and a positive role for the latter. The trend of higher life satisfaction among the living-alone Canadian-born are mainly among the socially independent, whereas for immigrants, socially dependent older adults experience the lowest level of life satisfaction when living alone. Therefore, while socially independent Canadian-born older adults gain a “living-alone premium” in life satisfaction; their socially dependent immigrant counterparts experience a “living-alone penalty” in life satisfaction.
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dc.identifier.citationShen, J., Tong, H., & Fuller-Thomson, E. (2024). Penalty versus premium: Social disposition differentiates life satisfaction among living-alone immigrant and native-born older adults—findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). The International Journal of Aging & Human Development, 00914150241268089. https://doi.org/10.1177/00914150241268089
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/00914150241268089
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3829
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectlife satisfaction
dc.subjectliving alone
dc.subjectaging
dc.subjectimmigrant
dc.subjectCanadian-born
dc.subjectpersonality traits
dc.subjectsubjective perception
dc.subjectCLSA
dc.titlePenalty versus premium: social disposition differentiates life satisfaction among living-alone immigrant and native-born older adults — findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)en
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