It's "the Joneses": the influence of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on subjective perceptions of aging
It's "the Joneses": the influence of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on subjective perceptions of aging
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DOI：
10.1007/s10433-018-0475-2
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发表时间：
2019-03-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Neupert, Shevaun D.
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作者：
English, Alaina N.;Bellingtier, Jennifer A.;Neupert, Shevaun D.
对衰老的积极主观看法可以预测各种幸福感，身体健康，心理健康和长寿结果。因此，重要的是要考虑哪些因素有助于其形成。社会经济地位（SES）被假设为这样一个因素，但过去的研究一直是混合的。我们认为，SES的主观评估可能比传统的客观测量（例如，收入和教育）。本研究旨在探讨社会经济地位的客观与主观指标对老年人主观知觉的影响。来自正念和预期应对日常研究的参与者（n = 296）被招募到亚马逊的Mechanical Turk上进行人类智力任务。参与者报告了他们的SES（即，收入、教育和主观社会地位）和对老龄化的主观感知（即，对自身衰老的态度，主观年龄，以及对年龄相关收益和损失的认识）。数据通过分层多元回归进行分析，首先输入人口统计学和健康变量，其次是收入和教育，然后是主观社会地位。结果表明，虽然客观措施的SES没有有助于预测主观的看法老化，那些主观评价自己在他们的社区社会地位较高的人更有可能拥有积极的老龄化态度，年轻的主观年龄，更多的意识到与年龄有关的收益，和更少的意识到与年龄有关的损失。这些发现表明，比邻居做得更好的感觉（即，与社会地位的客观指标相比，人们对衰老的主观看法可能更重要。
Positive subjective perceptions of aging predict various well-being, physical health, mental health, and longevity outcomes. Thus, it is important to consider what factors contribute to their formation. Socioeconomic status (SES) has been hypothesized to be one such factor, but past research has been mixed. We propose that subjective assessments of SES may better predict subjective perceptions of aging than traditional objective measures (e.g., income and education). The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of objective and subjective indicators of SES on subjective perceptions of aging. Participants (n = 296)from the Mindfulness and Anticipatory Coping Everyday study were recruited with a Human Intelligence Task on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Participants reported on their SES (i.e., income, education, and subjective social status) and subjective perceptions of aging (i.e., attitudes toward own aging, subjective age, and awareness of age-related gains and losses). Data were analyzed via hierarchical multiple regression with demographic and health variables entered first, followed by income and education, then subjective social status. Results demonstrated that although objective measures of SES did not contribute to predicting subjective perceptions of aging, those who rated themselves subjectively higher in their community social standing were more likely to possess positive aging attitudes, younger subjective ages, more awareness of age-related gains, and fewer awareness of age-related losses. These findings suggest that perceptions of doing better than one's neighbors (i.e., the Joneses) may matter more for understanding subjective perceptions of aging than objective indicators of social status.