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I WISH I MAY, I WISH I MIGHT FEEL THE AGE I WISH TONIGHT
Subjective age has traditionally been considered by comparing felt age to chronological age, with those who feel younger reporting more adaptive developmental outcomes. Here we consider a new approach: subjective age discordance, which compares felt ages to the ideal ages of participants. Across eig...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766159/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.642 |
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author | Bellingtier, Jennifer Rupprecht, Fiona Neupert, Shevaun Lang, Frieder |
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description | Subjective age has traditionally been considered by comparing felt age to chronological age, with those who feel younger reporting more adaptive developmental outcomes. Here we consider a new approach: subjective age discordance, which compares felt ages to the ideal ages of participants. Across eight study days, 116 older and 107 younger adults reported their daily felt and ideal ages. On the majority of days, both older and younger adults idealized ages younger than they felt. The opposite pattern, idealized ages older than felt ages, was rare and primarily seen in younger adults. Days when felt ages were less discordant from ideal ages were characterized by higher levels of positive affect than days with greater subjective age discordance. These findings suggest that positive developmental outcomes can occur not only from feeling younger, but through a greater alignment of ideal and felt ages. |
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spelling | pubmed-97661592022-12-20 I WISH I MAY, I WISH I MIGHT FEEL THE AGE I WISH TONIGHT Bellingtier, Jennifer Rupprecht, Fiona Neupert, Shevaun Lang, Frieder Innov Aging Abstracts Subjective age has traditionally been considered by comparing felt age to chronological age, with those who feel younger reporting more adaptive developmental outcomes. Here we consider a new approach: subjective age discordance, which compares felt ages to the ideal ages of participants. Across eight study days, 116 older and 107 younger adults reported their daily felt and ideal ages. On the majority of days, both older and younger adults idealized ages younger than they felt. The opposite pattern, idealized ages older than felt ages, was rare and primarily seen in younger adults. Days when felt ages were less discordant from ideal ages were characterized by higher levels of positive affect than days with greater subjective age discordance. These findings suggest that positive developmental outcomes can occur not only from feeling younger, but through a greater alignment of ideal and felt ages. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9766159/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.642 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Bellingtier, Jennifer Rupprecht, Fiona Neupert, Shevaun Lang, Frieder I WISH I MAY, I WISH I MIGHT FEEL THE AGE I WISH TONIGHT |
title | I WISH I MAY, I WISH I MIGHT FEEL THE AGE I WISH TONIGHT |
title_full | I WISH I MAY, I WISH I MIGHT FEEL THE AGE I WISH TONIGHT |
title_fullStr | I WISH I MAY, I WISH I MIGHT FEEL THE AGE I WISH TONIGHT |
title_full_unstemmed | I WISH I MAY, I WISH I MIGHT FEEL THE AGE I WISH TONIGHT |
title_short | I WISH I MAY, I WISH I MIGHT FEEL THE AGE I WISH TONIGHT |
title_sort | i wish i may, i wish i might feel the age i wish tonight |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766159/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.642 |
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