Murray Aja Louise, Li Xuefei
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Aging Ment Health. 2025 Apr;29(4):669-678. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2025.2450265. Epub 2025 Jan 10.
Ageism occurs across the world, with negative consequences for individuals and societies. In 2016, WHO received a mandate from its Member States to lead the global campaign to combat ageism. To monitor, evaluate, and build evidence for reducing ageism, the availability of a brief, reliable and valid set of indicators of ageism experiences that can be used globally is essential.
Building on previous reviews, the current review examines existing measures of ageism with a specific focus on suitability for meeting this need. Given the urgent need for indicators in the context of the global campaign to combat ageism, a rapid review methodology was adopted.
Results suggested that no measure met all desired criteria; however, the WHO ageism experiences scale was the most promising of available measures due to its focus on ageism as a multi-dimensional construct encompassing stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination and self-directed, interpersonal, and institutional elements and the explicit consideration of cross-cultural universality in its development. Other promising measures included ESS Round 4 items along with its CIS and VQ variants, the Everyday Ageism Scale, the Perceived Ageism Questionnaire (PAQ), and the Ageism Survey.
Further cross-setting validation of this scale is recommended.
年龄歧视在全球范围内都有发生，会给个人和社会带来负面影响。2016年，世界卫生组织接到其成员国的授权，领导全球抗击年龄歧视运动。为了监测、评估并积累减少年龄歧视的证据，一套简短、可靠且有效的全球通用年龄歧视经历指标至关重要。
在以往综述的基础上，本综述考察了现有的年龄歧视测量方法，特别关注其满足这一需求的适用性。鉴于在全球抗击年龄歧视运动背景下对指标的迫切需求，采用了快速综述方法。
结果表明，没有一种测量方法能满足所有期望标准；然而，世界卫生组织年龄歧视经历量表是现有测量方法中最具潜力的，因为它将年龄歧视视为一个多维度概念，涵盖刻板印象、偏见和歧视以及自我导向、人际和制度层面的因素，并且在其编制过程中明确考虑了跨文化普遍性。其他有潜力的测量方法包括欧洲社会调查第4轮项目及其CIS和VQ变体、日常年龄歧视量表、感知年龄歧视问卷（PAQ）以及年龄歧视调查。
建议对该量表进行进一步的跨背景验证。
