%0 Journal Article
%T Expanding the Happiness Paradox: Ethnoracial Disparities in Life Satisfaction Among Older Immigrants in the United States
%A Christina Matz-Costa
%A Dawn C. Carr
%A Roc¨ªo Calvo
%J Journal of Aging and Health
%@ 1552-6887
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0898264317726608
%X Objective: This study investigated nativity disparities in life satisfaction among ethnoracial groups of older adults in the United States and the factors associated with such disparities. Method: Cross-sectional data from 7,348 respondents aged 60 and older from the 2012/2014 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) were used to estimate linear regression models. Results: Older immigrants experienced higher levels of life satisfaction than comparable native-born individuals. This ¡°happiness advantage¡± was particularly salient for Hispanic immigrants, who reported the highest levels of life satisfaction of all groups included in the study. With increasing education, life satisfaction increased for White and ¡°Other Race¡± groups, regardless of nativity. However, for both Black groups and native-born Hispanics, higher levels of education were associated with lower life satisfaction. Discussion: Findings suggest that the ¡°happiness paradox¡± may not only be a matter of Hispanic ethnicity, but that it may also extend to immigrants from other ethnoracial backgrounds
%K happiness paradox
%K Health and Retirement Study
%K life satisfaction
%K immigrants
%K ethnoracial
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0898264317726608