People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: subjective age across the lifespan.
| dc.contributor.author | Rubin, David C | |
| dc.contributor.author | Berntsen, Dorthe | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | United States | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-19T05:24:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Subjective age--the age people think of themselves asbeing--is measured in a representative Danish sample of 1,470 adults between 20 and 97 years of age through personal, in-home interviews. On the average, adults younger than 25 have older subjective ages, and those older than 25 have younger subjective ages, favoring a lifespan-developmental view over an age-denial view of subjective age. When the discrepancy between subjective and chronological age is calculated as a proportion of chronological age, no increase is seen after age 40; older respondents feel 20% younger than their actual age. Demographic variables (gender, income, and education) account for very little variance in subjective age. | |
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| dc.identifier.issn | 1069-9384 | |
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| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Psychon Bull Rev | |
| dc.subject | Adult | |
| dc.subject | Aged | |
| dc.subject | Aged, 80 and over | |
| dc.subject | Aging | |
| dc.subject | Denial (Psychology) | |
| dc.subject | Female | |
| dc.subject | Humans | |
| dc.subject | Individuality | |
| dc.subject | Interview, Psychological | |
| dc.subject | Judgment | |
| dc.subject | Male | |
| dc.subject | Middle Aged | |
| dc.subject | Reality Testing | |
| dc.subject | Self Concept | |
| dc.subject | Set (Psychology) | |
| dc.subject | Sweden | |
| dc.title | People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: subjective age across the lifespan. | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
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| pubs.begin-page | 776 | |
| pubs.end-page | 780 | |
| pubs.issue | 5 | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Duke | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Duke Institute for Brain Sciences | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Institutes and Provost's Academic Units | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Psychology and Neuroscience | |
| pubs.organisational-group | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences | |
| pubs.organisational-group | University Institutes and Centers | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published | |
| pubs.volume | 13 |
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