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Age Differences in Age Perceptions and Developmental Transitions
Is 50 considered “old”? When do we stop being considered “young”? If individuals could choose to be any age, what would it be? In a sample of 502,548 internet respondents ranging in age from 10 to 89, we examined age differences in aging perceptions (e.g., how old do you feel?) and estimates of the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5799826/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29449823 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00067 |
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author | Chopik, William J. Bremner, Ryan H. Johnson, David J. Giasson, Hannah L. |
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description | Is 50 considered “old”? When do we stop being considered “young”? If individuals could choose to be any age, what would it be? In a sample of 502,548 internet respondents ranging in age from 10 to 89, we examined age differences in aging perceptions (e.g., how old do you feel?) and estimates of the timing of developmental transitions (e.g., when does someone become an older adult?). We found that older adults reported older perceptions of aging (e.g., choosing to be older, feeling older, being perceived as older), but that these perceptions were increasingly younger than their current age. The age to which individuals hope to live dramatically increased after age 40. We also found that older adults placed the age at which developmental transitions occurred later in the life course. This latter effect was stronger for transitions involving middle-age and older adulthood compared to transitions involving young adulthood. The current study constitutes the largest study to date of age differences in age perceptions and developmental timing estimates and yielded novel insights into how the aging process may affect judgments about the self and others. |
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spelling | pubmed-57998262018-02-15 Age Differences in Age Perceptions and Developmental Transitions Chopik, William J. Bremner, Ryan H. Johnson, David J. Giasson, Hannah L. Front Psychol Psychology Is 50 considered “old”? When do we stop being considered “young”? If individuals could choose to be any age, what would it be? In a sample of 502,548 internet respondents ranging in age from 10 to 89, we examined age differences in aging perceptions (e.g., how old do you feel?) and estimates of the timing of developmental transitions (e.g., when does someone become an older adult?). We found that older adults reported older perceptions of aging (e.g., choosing to be older, feeling older, being perceived as older), but that these perceptions were increasingly younger than their current age. The age to which individuals hope to live dramatically increased after age 40. We also found that older adults placed the age at which developmental transitions occurred later in the life course. This latter effect was stronger for transitions involving middle-age and older adulthood compared to transitions involving young adulthood. The current study constitutes the largest study to date of age differences in age perceptions and developmental timing estimates and yielded novel insights into how the aging process may affect judgments about the self and others. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5799826/ /pubmed/29449823 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00067 Text en Copyright © 2018 Chopik, Bremner, Johnson and Giasson. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Chopik, William J. Bremner, Ryan H. Johnson, David J. Giasson, Hannah L. Age Differences in Age Perceptions and Developmental Transitions |
title | Age Differences in Age Perceptions and Developmental Transitions |
title_full | Age Differences in Age Perceptions and Developmental Transitions |
title_fullStr | Age Differences in Age Perceptions and Developmental Transitions |
title_full_unstemmed | Age Differences in Age Perceptions and Developmental Transitions |
title_short | Age Differences in Age Perceptions and Developmental Transitions |
title_sort | age differences in age perceptions and developmental transitions |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5799826/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29449823 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00067 |
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