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Alice is 73 years old and has been retired for 6 years. She thought she would miss working, but she finds she is loving retired life. She spends time gardening, talking with her friends, and volunteering. What term would sociologists MOST likely assign to Alice’s happy attitude?
contentment quotient
retiree blessings
positivity effect
later-life excitement

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Positivity effect.

This describes older adults’ tendency to focus more on positive experiences and regulate emotions to maintain well‑being (consistent with socioemotional selectivity theory), which fits Alice’s happy, engaged retirement.