Stress can negatively impact health and wellbeing and cause people to become overwhelmed and feel that they have no control over their daily lives.
Stress can negatively impact health and wellbeing and cause people to become overwhelmed and feel that they have no control over their daily lives.
Now, a new study has found that older adults feel more youthful when they have control over their daily lives, even if stress levels are high.
Finding ways to improve self-control is important and can help boost wellbeing. But the study, conducted by researchers from North Carolina State University, found that different age groups place different levels of importance and value on self-control.
“We recently found that there are things older adults can do to improve their feelings of control in their everyday lives,” said Shevaun Neupert, a co-author of the study. “Now this study highlights how those feelings of control influence perceptions of age. The more control older adults think they have, the younger they feel.”
Read more at North Carolina State University
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