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Records were collected from more than 2.4 million individuals from 168 countries/regions. The hedonic well-being approach, focusing on daily experienced feelings/moods, was leveraged to measure SWB. They were asked to indicate any health problems which prevented them from performing tasks that people their age could typically do. The relationships among variables were interpreted using a directed acyclic graph .
Increased age resulted in a decrease in life evaluation following any pathway in the DAG. That is, a higher age aggravated most factors influencing life evaluation. The authors noted that the absolute values of the effects of age on life evaluation were much more significant in countries in Europe, Oceania, and North America than in other countries.
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