Chonody Jill M, Teater Barbra
a School of Social Work , Indiana University Northwest , Gary , IN , and University of South Australia.
b Social Work Program, College of Staten Island , The City University of New York , Staten Island , NY.
J Women Aging. 2016;28(2):112-26. doi: 10.1080/08952841.2014.950533. Epub 2015 Dec 30.
Outward appearance is one of the means by which age is determined, and fear of looking old may stem from fears about social identity and death. This study explored how social identity theory and terror management theory may help to explain the dread of looking old. University students from the United States, England, and Australia (N = 1,042) completed a questionnaire regarding their attitudes about aging and older adults. Results indicated that sex, age, beliefs about personal aging, and death anxiety explained 30.4% of the variance for participants' dread of looking old. Theoretical hypotheses were supported by our findings.
外表是判断年龄的方式之一，而害怕显老可能源于对社会身份和死亡的恐惧。本研究探讨了社会身份理论和恐怖管理理论如何有助于解释对显老的恐惧。来自美国、英国和澳大利亚的大学生（N = 1042）完成了一份关于他们对衰老和老年人态度的问卷。结果表明，性别、年龄、对个人衰老的看法以及死亡焦虑解释了参与者对显老恐惧的30.4%的变异。我们的研究结果支持了理论假设。
