Morelock Jeremiah C, Stokes Jeffrey E, Moorman Sara M
Boston College(,) United States.
Boston College(,) United States.
J Aging Stud. 2017 Jan;40:16-22. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2016.12.003. Epub 2016 Dec 27.
In this paper we suggest that older adults undergo a misalignment between societal age norms and personal lived experience, and attempt reconciliation through discursive strategies: They rewrite how they frame chronological age as well as their subjective relations to it. Using a sample of 4041 midlife and older adults from the 2004-2006 wave of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS II), we explore associations of age and gender with subjective age and at what age respondents felt people enter later life. Our results confirm that as men and women age, they push up the age at which they think people enter later life, and slow down subjective aging (there is a growing gap between subjective and chronological age). Relations between a person's age and at what age they think people enter later life were stronger for men than for women. For every year they get older get older, men push up when they think people enter later life by 0.24years, women by 0.16years. Age norms surrounding the transition to later life may be more prominent for men than for women, and the difference in their tendencies to push up when they mark entry into later life may be a reflection of this greater prominence.
在本文中，我们认为老年人经历了社会年龄规范与个人生活经历之间的错位，并试图通过话语策略进行调和：他们重新书写自己如何界定实足年龄以及与实足年龄的主观关系。我们以来自2004 - 2006年美国中年发展全国调查（MIDUS II）的4041名中年及老年人为样本，探讨年龄和性别与主观年龄的关联，以及受访者认为人们进入晚年的年龄。我们的研究结果证实，随着男性和女性年龄的增长，他们提高了自己认为人们进入晚年的年龄，并减缓了主观衰老（主观年龄与实足年龄之间的差距越来越大）。一个人的年龄与他们认为人们进入晚年的年龄之间的关系，男性比女性更为明显。男性每年长一岁，他们认为人们进入晚年的年龄就提高0.24岁，女性则提高0.16岁。围绕向晚年过渡的年龄规范对男性可能比对女性更为突出，而他们在标记进入晚年时提高年龄的倾向差异可能反映了这种更大的突出性。
