CONTROL BELIEFS MEDIATE THE WITHIN-PERSON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EVERYDAY CONTEXT AND SUBJECTIVE AGE
Shenghao Zhang, Shevaun Neupert · 2023
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Description
People often feel older or younger than their years, and that felt age shifts from day to day. Zhang and Neupert ask what daily experience moves it, focusing on whether the day's activities felt freely chosen.
In a nine-day diary study, 116 adults aged 60 to 90 logged their activities, how voluntary each felt, their sense of control, and their felt age. On days when activities felt more self-chosen, people also felt more in control, and that control in turn explained their younger felt age. The analysis points to a chain: context shapes control beliefs, and control beliefs shape subjective age. The authors say this inner resource deserves a central place in theories of how aging is experienced.
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| CREATOR | Shenghao Zhang, Shevaun Neupert |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |