López, J.Pérez Rojo, GemaNoriega, CristinaCarretero, I.Velasco, CristinaLópez Frutos, PatriciaGalarraga Cristobal, LeyreMartínez Huertas, José Ángel2024-05-202024-05-202020-05-221041-6102; eISSN 1741-203Xhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610220000964https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/12592The COVID-19 outbreak could be considered as an uncontrollable stressful life event. Lockdown measures have provoked a disruption of daily life with a great impact over older adults’ health and well-being. Nevertheless, eudaimonic well‐being plays a protective role in confronting adverse circumstances, such as the COVID-19 situation. This study aims to assess the association between age and psychological well-being (personal growth and purpose in life). Young–old (60–70 years) and old–old (71–80 years) community- dwelling Spaniards (N = 878) completed a survey and reported on their sociodemographic characteristics and their levels of health, COVID-19 stress-related, appraisal, and personal resources. Old–old did not evidence poorer psychological well-being than young–old. Age has only a negative impact on personal growth. The results also suggest that the nature of the COVID-19 impact (except for the loss of a loved one) may not be as relevant for the older adults’ well-being as their appraisals and personal resources for managing COVID- related problems. In addition, these results suggest that some sociodemographic and health-related variables have an impact on older adults’ well-being. Thus, perceived-health, family functioning, resilience, gratitude, and acceptance had significant associations with both personal growth and purpose in life. Efforts to address older adults’ psychological well-being focusing on older adults’ personal resources should be consideredeninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessjournal articlewell-beingolder adultscrisisstresspersonal strengthseudaimoniapersonal growthpurpose in life