Avoiding Aging? Social Psychology’s Treatment of Age

Barrett, Anne E.; Redmond, Rebecca; Rohr, Carmen Von

doi:10.1007/s12108-012-9157-2

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“…Así, cada cultura y cada periodo histórico definen un esquema adecuado de curso vital, con patrones comportamentales delimitados para cada etapa «a menudo falsos y artificiales» (Gutiérrez y Hernández, 2013: 139). No obstante, estudios previos evidencian que, independientemente del contexto cultural, el buen envejecer es definido por los mayores en relación con: tener buena salud, estar satisfecho con la vida, tener amigos y familiares, adaptarse a los cambios y cuidar de uno mismo (Fernández-Ballesteros, Schettini, Santacreu y Molina, 2012) Al igual que otros estatus sociales adscritos, como el género, la clase o la etnia, la edad es un elemento de identidad social (Barrett, Redmond y Von Rohr, 2012). Pizzorno (1978) define la identidad colectiva como un constructo subjetivo y cambiante articulado a partir de la existencia de una comunidad imaginada, la pertenencia a un grupo como círculo de reconocimiento y la ejecución de rituales de reafirmación de la acción colectiva.…”

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«¿Mayor, yo? ¿Dónde lo pone?» Concepción y atribuciones sociales a la vejez según la autopercepción de las personas mayores del siglo XXI: de la seneficiencia al elder pride

García-Domingo

Aguilar

2022

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Las personas mayores, como grupo poblacional, son objeto de estereotipos y prejuicios hacia la vejez que derivan en situaciones de discriminación y edadismo. El presente estudio cualitativo indaga en la concepción y las atribuciones sociales a la vejez en las sociedades posindustriales, centrándose en el caso de Alemania y España. Para ello, a través de las técnicas de la entrevista y el grupo focal, se recaba la perspectiva tanto de expertos en el tema como de las propias personas mayores. El análisis evidencia la imprecisión del concepto vejez y las connotaciones negativas asociadas al mismo, así como un rechazo a autoidentificarse como persona mayor. Se concluye la necesidad de una reconceptualización de la vejez que refleje su significado actual.

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«¿Mayor, yo? ¿Dónde lo pone?» Concepción y atribuciones sociales a la vejez según la autopercepción de las personas mayores del siglo XXI: de la seneficiencia al elder pride

García-Domingo

Aguilar

2022

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“…Research on subjective age identity has consistently revealed discrepancies between how old individuals actually are (chronological age) and how old they report feeling, looking, and acting (Barrett, Redmond, & Rohr, 2012;Daatland, 2007;Diehl & Wahl, 2010;Rubin & Berntsen, 2006;Settersten & Mayer, 1997). In the second half of life, individuals begin to report younger subjective ages than their chronological age.…”

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Subjective Aging and New Complexities of the Life Course

Settersten¹,

Hägestad²

2015

annu rev gerontol geriatr

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How individuals evaluate their aging must be understood within a context of structural and cultural forces that transformed the human life course over the last century. This chapter applies social science perspectives to explore how structural and cultural dynamics shape the contour and content of aging and affect individual expectations and evaluations. The starting assumption is that subjective aging is largely intersubjective: How human beings experience aging is shaped by shared meanings, accumulated through lifelong socialization and feedback from persons around them. The chapter examines how subjective aging is connected to societal change in demographic and epidemiological conditions, the cultural shift toward individualization, and complex contingencies related to social relationships in contemporary life. It examines markers of becoming and being old and the degree to which subjective aging is similar or different for women and men. It closes with a discussion of how social factors can better be brought into research on subjective aging, and of how gerontologists are resistant participant observers in their own aging process and their communication about aging.

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“…Findings revealed that neighborhood density of older residents was associated with less perceived age discrimination for young-old persons but was not influential for the oldest-old, who reported low levels of age discrimination irrespective of neighborhood age demographics. This extends the theory of group density to the experience of age discrimination, a needed expansion of theory in the realm of age discrimination (Barrett, Redmond, and von Rohr 2012).…”

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Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? Neighborhood Age Composition and Age Discrimination

Stokes

Moorman

2016

Soc Psychol Q

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Age discrimination is pervasive in the United States, yet little is known about the social contexts in which it occurs. Older persons spend much of their time in their neighborhoods, where a density of other older persons may protect against age discrimination. Extending group density theory to age, we analyze data from 1,561 older adults from the second wave of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, using neighborhood-level data from the 2010 U.S. census. We examine (1) whether the concentration of older neighborhood residents influences perceived age discrimination and (2) whether that influence varies by age. Results indicate that the density of older residents protects against age discrimination for individuals entering old age but it is decreasingly influential as individuals approach oldest-old age and report less age discrimination regardless of neighborhood age composition. We discuss the implications of these findings for theory on age discrimination.

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Avoiding Aging? Social Psychology’s Treatment of Age

Cited by 8 publications

References 58 publications

«¿Mayor, yo? ¿Dónde lo pone?» Concepción y atribuciones sociales a la vejez según la autopercepción de las personas mayores del siglo XXI: de la seneficiencia al elder pride

«¿Mayor, yo? ¿Dónde lo pone?» Concepción y atribuciones sociales a la vejez según la autopercepción de las personas mayores del siglo XXI: de la seneficiencia al elder pride

Subjective Aging and New Complexities of the Life Course

Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? Neighborhood Age Composition and Age Discrimination

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