Reframing Aging: Effect of a Short-Term Framing Intervention on Implicit Measures of Age Bias

Busso, Daniel S.; Volmert, Andrew; Kendall-Taylor, Nathaniel

doi:10.1093/geronb/gby080

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“…Although we created new anti-ageism messages for this study to manipulate emphasis on reducing negative views of aging versus promoting positive views of aging, the lack of observed differences across framings suggests some flexibility in the anti-ageism message content. Therefore, future research should test whether anti-ageism messages from the Reframing Aging project (Busso et al, 2019) also promote motivation to engage in physical activities among older adults given that these messages are already being actively, widely disseminated as part of the funded initiative. Moving beyond motivation, additional research is needed to examine the effect of anti-ageism messages on levels of physical activity and program attendance.…”

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“…A recent online experiment indicates that brief anti-ageism messages can shift views of aging (Busso et al, 2019). The Reframing Aging initiative developed framed messages to reduce negative attitudes toward older adults and change public discourse to improve advocacy for issues affecting us all as we age.…”

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Brief Anti-Ageism Messaging Effects on Physical Activity Motivation Among Older Adults

2020

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When people have more negative perceptions about aging or attribute health decline to old age, they engage in less health promotion behavior. We tested whether an intervention of brief anti-ageism messages addressing views of aging could motivate engagement in physical activities at senior centers. Attendees aged 50 and older ( n = 349; Mage = 72, SD = 9) at seven centers were randomly assigned to read one of three intervention messages (different approaches addressing views of aging) or to not read a message before rating their likelihood of attending a variety of center programs, including physical activities. Multilevel regression models indicated the intervention increased motivation to attend physical activities compared with the control group among participants aged 72 and older. The three anti-ageism messages were similarly effective suggesting some flexibility in framing. The results indicate anti-ageism messages may be a scalable, low-cost approach to promoting physical activity in older adults.

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Brief Anti-Ageism Messaging Effects on Physical Activity Motivation Among Older Adults

2020

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“…The experience of aging is often stereotyped and stigmatised (Bugental and Hehman 2007;Busso et al 2019;Simpson 2016). It is sundered into polarities of disease and well-being, poverty and wealth, loneliness and depression versus companionship and contentment.…”

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Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Spiritual Resilience in Marginalised Older Adults

Nelson-Becker

Thomas

2020

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Spiritual and religious struggles emerge in times where life meaning is unclear, has changed or is challenged. Resilience has been addressed in terms of psychological, social, emotional and physical capacity or competence related to struggle. However, there is a relatively sparse literature defining and addressing spiritual resilience, both what it is and how it is demonstrated. This is especially true of the oppressive and marginalised experiences of diverse older persons. This paper asks how older persons have responded to life challenge and spiritual struggle through spiritually resilient responses. It provides a foundation for the discussion of spiritual resilience in older people through examples from two different community studies: 55 LGBQ older dyads across several nations, and 75 older Black and Jewish persons residing in Chicago, IL. The first study highlights same-sex couples, discussing the complex relationship of sexuality and religion and how resilience is achieved. The second study addresses religious/spiritual struggle using a life course perspective to note where spiritual resilience has been an outcome. Spiritual resilience is at the heart of posttraumatic and stress-related growth and often emerges through a process of lived transformation leading to greater self-awareness and self-understanding in a revised construction of identity.

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“…Fortunately, SPA are malleable (Jung et al, 2019) and efforts to improve them are gaining momentum as recent interventions have displayed effectiveness (Busso et al, 2019; Smith & Bryant, 2019; The Gerontological Society of America, n.d.). A more granular understanding of the factors that inform a person’s SPA can increase specificity of intervention and implementation strategies, in turn allowing for more targeted interventions and thus increasing efficacy.…”

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Are Thoughts About the Future Associated With Perceptions in the Present?: Optimism, Possible Selves, and Self-Perceptions of Aging

Turner

Hooker

2020

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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Despite much literature pointing to the saliency of self-perceptions of aging (SPA) to aging processes, limited research offers empirical analysis on what shapes SPA. In order to identify possible antecedents to SPA, we conducted an exploratory analysis to analyze whether two future-oriented constructs—optimism and self-efficacy associated with possible selves—were associated with SPA. We ran hierarchical linear regressions, with optimism and self-efficacy of possible selves predicting SPA among 244 middle-aged and older adults. Higher optimism, higher self-efficacy to achieve hoped-for selves, and higher self-efficacy to avoid feared selves were associated with higher overall SPA. Results from our study suggest that how someone appraises their future older self impacts how they perceive their current older self.

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Reframing Aging: Effect of a Short-Term Framing Intervention on Implicit Measures of Age Bias

Abstract: Findings indicate that reframing messages about aging can decrease implicit bias against older adults. This study highlights ways for communicators to promote a positive understanding of the aging process, thereby mitigating sources of implicit prejudice.

Cited by 54 publications

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Brief Anti-Ageism Messaging Effects on Physical Activity Motivation Among Older Adults

Brief Anti-Ageism Messaging Effects on Physical Activity Motivation Among Older Adults

Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Spiritual Resilience in Marginalised Older Adults

Are Thoughts About the Future Associated With Perceptions in the Present?: Optimism, Possible Selves, and Self-Perceptions of Aging

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