Study Participants and External Validity

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In saying that college students do not appropriately measure to adult population’s in general, I considered emotional intelligence. Adults are inclined to have good theoretical stability of emotions required to give credible responses. Irrespective of the emotional challenges that the adult population faces, they are more likely to experience increasingly subjective well-being and thus control their emotions compared to college students (younger adults) (O’Connor et al., 2019). In addition, adults are likely to show a high BEIS-10 factorial validity compared to more youthful college students. Since BEIS-10 represents a person’s self-reported emotional abilities and skills, it can be hypothesized that the indicator demonstrates the extent of stability with age. Regarding, the gratitude questionnaire (CQ-6), an individual gratefulness increases with age. In this way, older adults are likely to show a higher gratitude sense since they perceive gratefulness as an enriching and positive experience (Chopik et al., 2019). Nevertheless, this might not be the case for personal altruism level. Recent research found that people are more health altruistic towards childr...