Day-to-day associations between social interaction valence and awareness of age-related change
Christina Ristl, Lukas Kraiger, Selma Korlat, Sarah E Martiny, Jana Nikitin · 2026
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Christina Ristl and four co-authors study how daily social life colors the way people notice their own aging, in a 2026 paper. Awareness of age-related change means seeing the gains and losses that come with age. Social meetings are a daily setting where such views may form, yet their short-term link was little studied. The team ran a fourteen-day diary study with one hundred nine adults aged fifty to eighty-five.
Participants logged their social meetings and aging perceptions each day, giving over fifteen hundred daily records. Modeling separated day-to-day swings from stable personal differences. On days with more aging gains than usual, social meetings also felt more positive. The results show that views of aging shift with everyday company, not just with big life events.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Christina Ristl, Lukas Kraiger, Selma Korlat, Sarah E Martiny, Jana Nikitin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |