Carbone Elena, Sella Enrico, Signori Diletta, Borella Erika
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2024 Oct 9;15:1437232. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1437232. eCollection 2024.
Personal views of aging (VoA) reflect individuals' perceptions, attitudes, and expectations regarding their aging selves. The present cross-sectional study was aimed at examining whether personality traits, as defined by the Big Five model, are associated with different VoA concepts related to both subjective age and awareness of age-related gains and losses in midlife and older age.
A sample of 224 participants aged 46-85 years reported their felt age and completed the Awareness of Age-Related Change (AARC) questionnaire, assessing perceptions of age-related gains (AARC-Gains) and losses (AARC-Losses) in various functioning domains, as well as the short version of the Big Five Inventory.
Linear regression models showed that Openness contributed to explain youthful subjective age. Extraversion explained higher AARC-Gains scores, whereas Emotional Stability, along with younger chronological age and perceiving better self-rated health, contributed to explaining lower AARC-Losses scores.
These findings confirm the relationship between personality traits and personal VoA. They further suggest that such an association varies depending on the VoA measure considered. They underscore the importance of considering personality among those individual characteristics capable of shaping personal VoA, with implications for the development of tailored interventions and the understanding of the underlying mechanisms linking personal VoA to health and longevity outcomes in midlife and older age.
个人衰老观（VoA）反映了个体对自身衰老的认知、态度和期望。本横断面研究旨在探讨由大五人格模型定义的人格特质是否与不同的个人衰老观概念相关，这些概念涉及主观年龄以及对中年和老年与年龄相关的得失的认知。
224名年龄在46 - 85岁之间的参与者报告了他们的感知年龄，并完成了与年龄相关变化的认知（AARC）问卷，该问卷评估了在各个功能领域对与年龄相关的收获（AARC - 收获）和损失（AARC - 损失）的认知，以及大五人格量表的简短版本。
线性回归模型表明，开放性有助于解释年轻的主观年龄。外向性解释了较高的AARC - 收获得分，而情绪稳定性，连同较年轻的实际年龄和感知到更好的自评健康状况，有助于解释较低的AARC - 损失得分。
这些发现证实了人格特质与个人衰老观之间的关系。它们进一步表明，这种关联因所考虑的个人衰老观测量方法而异。它们强调了在那些能够塑造个人衰老观的个体特征中考虑人格的重要性，这对制定针对性干预措施以及理解将个人衰老观与中年和老年的健康及长寿结果联系起来的潜在机制具有启示意义。
