Barnes-Farrell J L, Piotrowski M J
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06268.
Psychol Aging. 1989 Sep;4(3):376-7. doi: 10.1037//0882-7974.4.3.376.
A large manufacturing organization was surveyed to determine whether workers perceive discrepancies between their chronological ages and the ages they "feel" themselves to be. A substantial proportion (61.5%) of the sample did report such discrepancies. Feeling "younger than one's years" was reported significantly more frequently than feeling "older than one's years"; the mean magnitude of discrepancies was 5.6 years. However, age of respondent affected both the magnitude and the direction of perceived discrepancies. Younger respondents were more likely to perceive themselves as older than their chronological ages, and older respondents were more likely to report that they felt themselves to be younger than their chronological ages. The implications of these observations for the understanding and measurement of subjective age and other age-related variables is discussed.
一家大型制造企业接受了调查，以确定员工是否察觉到自己的实际年龄与他们“感觉”自己的年龄之间存在差异。相当比例（61.5%）的样本确实报告了这种差异。报告称“感觉比实际年龄年轻”的情况比“感觉比实际年龄大”更为频繁；差异的平均幅度为5.6岁。然而，受访者的年龄影响了感知差异的幅度和方向。较年轻的受访者更有可能认为自己比实际年龄大，而较年长的受访者更有可能报告说他们感觉自己比实际年龄年轻。本文讨论了这些观察结果对理解和测量主观年龄及其他与年龄相关变量的意义。
