NDLI: Women’s Regrets About Their Lives: Cohort Differences in Correlates and Contents

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Author	Newton, Nicky Torges, Cynthia Stewart, Abigail
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	In this paper we test hypotheses about the importance of life stage in moderating the relationship between acknowledging regrets and concurrent well-being, as well as how changes in women’s social roles during the post-war period affected the content of the regrets they develop. We examine the relationship between women’s life regrets and life satisfaction, and the content of life regrets, using data from 313 predominately white, college-educated women who graduated from the same university in the United States in 1951/2 (age 66), 1972 (age 46) and 1992 (age 26). Analyses revealed that the more types of regrets middle-aged and older women reported (the 1972 and 1951/2 cohorts respectively), the lower their life satisfaction; this pattern did not hold for the youngest women. In terms of the specific content of regrets, exact logistic regressions showed that women in the oldest cohort reported more regrets about prioritizing family over career compared with the later cohorts. Overall, few women reported regrets about prioritizing their careers over families; however, women in the middle cohort were most likely to report these regrets. Results are discussed in terms of both developmental and socio-historical frameworks.
Starting Page	530
Ending Page	543
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03600025
Journal	Sex Roles
Volume Number	66
Issue Number	7-8
e-ISSN	15732762
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2012-02-16
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Regret Cohort Family Career Well-being Medicine/Public Health Gender Studies Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Gender Studies Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology

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