Reference : SUBJECTIVE AGING: SOMETHING UNIQUE OR JUST ANOTHER EXPRESSION OF GENERAL SELF-BELIEFS?
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Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Multidisciplinary, general & others
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/41565
SUBJECTIVE AGING: SOMETHING UNIQUE OR JUST ANOTHER EXPRESSION OF GENERAL SELF-BELIEFS?
English
Klusmann, Verena [> >]
Spuling, Svenja M. [> >]
Bowen, Catherine E. [> >]
Kornadt, Anna Elena mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)]
Kessler, Eva-Marie [> >]
2019
Innovation in Aging
3
Supplement_1
S786-S787
Yes (verified by ORBilu)
2399-5300
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America
November 2019
[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.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/41565
10.1093/geroni/igz038.2895
https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2895

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