Commentary on: People search for meaning when they approach a new decade in chronological age

Frontiers in Psychology

Erik G. Larsen¹ 

关键词: meaning in life;    aging;    age effects;    replication;    post-publication review;    cross-validation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00792

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In Study 1, AH examine whether people having an age ending at nine (29, 39, etc.) is more likely, on average, to question the meaning of life on a four point scale. They conclude, using survey data from the World Values Survey (WVS), that “nine-enders reported questioning the meaning or purpose of life more than respondents whose ages ended in any other digit” (p. 17067). To cross-validate this finding I applied data from all six waves of the WVS with similar measures (compared to one wave used by the authors) and estimated the nine-ender effect as a simple difference in means (as AH), in an ordered logistic regression (to take the ordinal nature of the dependent variable into account) and in a mixed effects model (to treat age as a random covariate).

【 授权许可】

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