KINDNESS INTERVENTION AND SELF-PERCEPTION OF AGING: AN INTERGENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Dwight Tse, Ewan Cahill · 2023
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Dwight Tse and Ewan Cahill test whether doing kind acts changes how older adults see their own aging, in this 2023 study. Older people often absorb the stereotype that they are unproductive and less able. The authors reasoned that helping others might push back against that inner view, beyond any lift in mood.
Forty-five British adults aged sixty-one to eighty took part in a two week experiment. One group noted up to three kind acts each day and planned more for the next day, while the control group listed places they had been. Well-being rose no more in the kindness group than in controls. But attitudes toward their own aging improved, above all in seeing gains rather than losses. Most kind acts went to family, then community members and friends.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Dwight Tse, Ewan Cahill |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |