Abstract
To elucidate the factors of successful aging we conducted a survey in middle and advanced age, and analyzed the correlation between occurrence of developmental crisis／situational crisis and subjective well-being rated by Neugarten's Life Satisfaction Index.
The results obtained by multivariate analysis were as follows.
1) The crisis significantly related to subjective well-being were outstanding personal achievement, change in living condition, homecoming, death of spouse, and injury／illness. These were all situational crisis.
The crisis improved subjective well-being were homecoming, outstanding personal achievement, retirement, and promotion in status, while the crisis deteriorated subjective well-being were death of spouse, children's misdeed, discharge, change of occupation, and divorce.
2) In males the crisis significantly related to subjective well-being were homecoming, outstanding personal achievement, death of spouse, change in living condition, and injury／illness. These were all situational crisis.
The crisis improved subjective well-being were homecoming, outstanding personal achievement, promotion in status, and retirement, while the crisis deteriorated subjective well-being were death of spouse, children's misdeed, discharge, change of occupation, and divorce.
While in females, outstanding personal achievement, resignation, change of occupation, restructure of home, and death of spouse were significantly related to subjective well-being.
The crisis improved subjective well-being were outstanding personal achievement, limited divorce and change of occupation, while the crisis deteriorated subjective well-being were divorce, resignation, death of spouse, misdeed of one's children, sexual disorder, troubles with blood relatives, insolvency, and change in the number of arguments with spouse.
The present results revealed that some situational crisis had not only negative effects on subjective well-being but also a few of them had positive effects on subjective well-being.
