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SUBJECTIVE AGING: SOMETHING UNIQUE OR JUST ANOTHER EXPRESSION OF GENERAL SELF-BELIEFS?
Klusmann, Verena; Spuling, Svenja M.; Bowen, Catherine E. et al.
2019In Innovation in Aging, 3 (Supplement_1), p. 786-S787
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Abstract :
[en] Using data from the German Ageing Survey (adults aged 40‒85), this study tested the convergent and discriminant validity of subjective aging measures by comparing three different measures of subjective aging with one another and relating them to established measures of general self-beliefs (optimism, self-efficacy, subjective health) and subjective well-being (depression, affect). Correlations between subjective aging measures ranged from ‒.61 (amongst general self-perceptions of aging measures) to ‒.09, with subjective age being least related to the other measures. The highest overlap was observed between optimism and global self-perceptions of aging (.69) and it was for these global self-perceptions that the highest amount of variance could be explained by correlates in a regression analysis (R-square=.55). In contrast, only 10% of variance could be explained for subjective age. Our results underline the merit of taking the multidimensional nature of subjective aging into account since global measures appear less distinct from general personality traits.
Disciplines :
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Klusmann, Verena
Spuling, Svenja M.
Bowen, Catherine E.
Kornadt, Anna Elena  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
Kessler, Eva-Marie
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
SUBJECTIVE AGING: SOMETHING UNIQUE OR JUST ANOTHER EXPRESSION OF GENERAL SELF-BELIEFS?
Publication date :
2019
Event name :
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America
Event date :
November 2019
Journal title :
Innovation in Aging
ISSN :
2399-5300
Publisher :
Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
3
Issue :
Supplement_1
Pages :
S786-S787
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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