Levels of awareness of age-related gains and losses throughout adulthood and their developmental correlates
Views of aging predict key developmental outcomes. Less is known, however, about the consequences of constellations of domain-specific perceived gains and losses across the full adult lifespan. First, we explored levels of awareness of age-related gains (AARC-gains) and losses (AARC-losses) in five...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Psychology and aging
Year: 2023, Volume: 38, Issue: 8, Pages: 837-853 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1498 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/pag0000784 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000784 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=DOISource&SrcApp=WOS&KeyAID=10.1037%2Fpag0000784&DestApp=DOI&SrcAppSID=EUW1ED0DE2wl0dlocgfhabpODhWsw&SrcJTitle=PSYCHOLOGY+AND+AGING&DestDOIRegistrantName=American+Psychological+Association 
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| Author Notes: | Serena Sabatini, Fiona S. Rupprecht, Manfred Diehl, Hans-Werner Wahl, Roman Kaspar, Oliver K. Schilling, and Denis Gerstorf |
| Summary: | Views of aging predict key developmental outcomes. Less is known, however, about the consequences of constellations of domain-specific perceived gains and losses across the full adult lifespan. First, we explored levels of awareness of age-related gains (AARC-gains) and losses (AARC-losses) in five behavioral domains across adulthood. Second, we identified the number and types of profiles of AARC-gains and AARC-losses in young adulthood, midlife, young-old age, and old-old age. Third, we investigated whether the identified profiles differed in their associations with developmental correlates. Data came from the 2018 German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS), comprising 403 young, 721 middle-aged, 260 young-old and 228 old-old individuals. We assessed AARC, physical and mental functioning, information processing speed, social relations, lifestyle, and engagement. At the sample level, AARC-losses were higher in old age, whereas AARC-gains did not differ across adulthood. Latent profile analyses revealed two distinguishable constellations of AARC-gains and AARC-losses that characterize young adulthood and old-old age, whereas four and three gains-to-losses constellations are needed to characterize midlife and young-old age, respectively. In middle, young-old, and old-old age, profiles with more AARC-losses were associated with poorer scores on all developmental correlates. Overall, study results suggest that age-related experiences are most diversified in midlife and young-old age. Asking individuals about their negative age-related experiences may help identify those individuals who are doing less well in important developmental correlates. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 26.01.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1939-1498 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/pag0000784 |