Daily Experiences of Subjective Age Discordance and Well-Being
Daily Experiences of Subjective Age Discordance and Well-Being
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DOI：
10.1037/pag0000621
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发表时间：
2021-09-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Lang, Frieder R.
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作者：
Bellingtier, Jennifer A.;Rupprecht, Fiona S.;Lang, Frieder R.
主观年龄不一致性（SAD）捕捉了一个人感觉自己多大和理想年龄之间的差异。我们调查了日常生活中这种不和谐的存在，强度和波动，以及它与各种生理和心理健康指标的关系，为期8天的日记研究。参与者是116名老年人和107名年轻人，他们每天完成感觉年龄，理想年龄，积极和消极影响，身体症状和压力的测量。我们将SAD操作化为感觉年龄减去理想年龄除以实际年龄，并将这种不一致的效用与更确定的感觉年龄与实际年龄的比例差异进行比较。每日SAD存在于两个年龄组中，这样个人理想化的年龄比他们感觉的要小。这种不一致性在老年人比年轻人更大，尽管年轻人在SAD中表现出更多的日常波动。人内SAD的增加与较低的积极影响有关，而人与人之间的SAD与更多的身体症状和压力源有关。这些关系超过了感觉和实际年龄与结果的关联，表明每日SAD用于理解日常身心健康。
Subjective age discordance (SAD) captures the difference between how old one feels and how old one would ideally like to be. We investigated the presence, strength, and fluctuation of this discordance in daily life as well as its relationship to various indicators of physical and psychological well-being with an 8-day diary study. Participants were 116 older and 107 younger adults who completed daily measures of felt age, ideal age, positive and negative affect, physical symptoms, and stressors. We operationalized SAD as felt age minus ideal age divided by chronological age and compared the utility of this discordance to the more established proportional discrepancy of felt age from chronological age. Daily SAD was present in both age groups, such that individuals idealized younger ages than they felt. This discordance was larger in older than younger adults, although younger adults exhibited more daily fluctuations in SAD. Within-person increases in SAD were associated with lower positive affect, whereas larger SAD at the between-person level was associated with more physical symptoms and stressors. These relationships were over and above the associations of felt and chronological age with the outcomes suggesting the utility of daily SAD for understanding daily physical and psychological well-being.