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“Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19
Negative messages about aging dominate public discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic as older adults have been classified as members of a “vulnerable” population due to their chronological age. To explore young adults' feelings about aging before and after the emergence of COVID-19, we collected...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8747948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35248312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2022.100998 |
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author | Anderson, Lindsey B. Gettings, Patricia E. |
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description | Negative messages about aging dominate public discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic as older adults have been classified as members of a “vulnerable” population due to their chronological age. To explore young adults' feelings about aging before and after the emergence of COVID-19, we collected 794 qualitative questionnaires during the fall of 2017 and another 463 responses during the fall of 2020. We drew on the concepts of age-based stereotypes and future selves to guide our thematic analysis of the data. Findings captured young adults' feelings about aging at two distinct points in time and demonstrate the complex ways the communication contributed to shifting feelings about aging. In doing so, we highlight the role that portrayals of aging play in shaping young adults' feelings about aging and their perception of their future selves. These findings offer conceptual contributions about communication, context, and aging. |
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spelling | pubmed-87479482022-01-11 “Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19 Anderson, Lindsey B. Gettings, Patricia E. J Aging Stud Article Negative messages about aging dominate public discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic as older adults have been classified as members of a “vulnerable” population due to their chronological age. To explore young adults' feelings about aging before and after the emergence of COVID-19, we collected 794 qualitative questionnaires during the fall of 2017 and another 463 responses during the fall of 2020. We drew on the concepts of age-based stereotypes and future selves to guide our thematic analysis of the data. Findings captured young adults' feelings about aging at two distinct points in time and demonstrate the complex ways the communication contributed to shifting feelings about aging. In doing so, we highlight the role that portrayals of aging play in shaping young adults' feelings about aging and their perception of their future selves. These findings offer conceptual contributions about communication, context, and aging. Elsevier Inc. 2022-03 2022-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8747948/ /pubmed/35248312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2022.100998 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Anderson, Lindsey B. Gettings, Patricia E. “Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19 |
title | “Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19 |
title_full | “Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | “Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | “Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19 |
title_short | “Old age scares me”: Exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during COVID-19 |
title_sort | “old age scares me”: exploring young adults' feelings about aging before and during covid-19 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8747948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35248312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2022.100998 |
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