衰老的背景：评估不同生活领域的评价性年龄刻板印象。

Contexts of aging: assessing evaluative age stereotypes in different life domains.

机构信息

Department of Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Am Steiger 3, Haus 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany.

出版信息

J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2011 Sep;66(5):547-56. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbr036. Epub 2011 May 12.

DOI:10.1093/geronb/gbr036

PMID:21571702

Abstract

OBJECTIVES

Research on age stereotypes suggests that views of older persons are complex and multidimensional. We investigated the positivity or negativity of age stereotypes with respect to different life domains.

METHOD

A newly developed questionnaire assessing domain-specific age stereotypes was administered to a large sample of adults covering a wide age range.

RESULTS

Our findings confirm the existence of independent domain-specific age stereotypes, providing evidence for a multifaceted and complex view of old age and aging. "Old persons" were evaluated differently in the various life domains, and age thresholds for ascriptions of being old differed between domains. Furthermore, the positivity of domain-specific age stereotypes of a person predicted individual life satisfaction for the respective life domain. The strength of the relationship between age stereotypes and life satisfaction increased with participants' age.

DISCUSSION

Our results indicate the existence of domain-specific age stereotypes that become internalized into older persons' self-views.

摘要

目的

有关年龄刻板印象的研究表明，人们对老年人的看法是复杂和多维度的。我们研究了不同生活领域的年龄刻板印象是积极的还是消极的。

方法

我们向一个涵盖广泛年龄范围的成年人的大样本使用新开发的问卷评估特定领域的年龄刻板印象。

结果

我们的研究结果证实了独立的特定领域的年龄刻板印象的存在，为对老年和衰老的多方面和复杂观点提供了证据。“老年人”在各个生活领域中被不同地评价，并且在不同的领域中被赋予年老的年龄阈值也不同。此外，特定领域的年龄刻板印象对一个人的积极程度可以预测个人在相应生活领域的生活满意度。年龄刻板印象与生活满意度之间的关系强度随着参与者年龄的增长而增加。