Harnessing progress: Gender, sexuality, and positive self-perceptions of aging in midlife.
Harnessing progress: Gender, sexuality, and positive self-perceptions of aging in midlife.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jaging.2022.101008
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发表时间：
2022-06
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Barbee, Harry
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作者：
Barbee, Harry
通过访谈，本文分析了女同性恋、男同性恋、异性恋女性和异性恋男性如何在中年时期构建对衰老的积极看法，这是一个对衰老的负面看法非常突出的生命历程时期。受访者参与了利用“进步”的过程——一个精心制作个人衰老叙事的过程，强调成长和进步——这有助于他们对自己的衰老持积极态度。所有受访者都分享了这些进展，但不同性别和性取向群体的报告有所不同。男性的叙述主要集中在他们获得的智慧，以及这些智慧如何使他们与老一辈和年轻一代更相关。对于后者，直男认为他们的孩子是他们进步的受益者，而男同性恋则认为年轻的LGBTQ群体是受益者。女性的进步叙事侧重于自我完善。异性恋女性认为随着年龄的增长她们变得更加自立，而女同性恋则认为她们学会了为自己挺身而出。总的来说，研究结果揭示了性别和性身份——以及伴随这些身份的终身利益和负担——如何影响人们对衰老的积极看法。
Drawing on interviews, this article analyzes how lesbians, gay men, straight women, and straight men construct positive views of aging during midlife, a life course period when negative perceptions of aging are salient. Interviewees engaged in harnessing progress—a process of crafting personal aging narratives that emphasize growth and improvement—which helped them to feel positively about their own aging. All interviewees shared these progress narratives, but reports differed across gender and sexuality groups. Men’s narratives focused on the wisdom they gained and how that made them more relevant to older and younger generations. Regarding the latter, straight men viewed their children as beneficiaries of their progress and gay men viewed younger LGBTQ people as beneficiaries. Women’s progress narratives focused on self-improvement. Whereas straight women described becoming more self-reliant with age, lesbians described learning to stand up for themselves. Overall, findings reveal how gender and sexual identities—and the lifelong benefits and burdens that accompany those identities—influence how people create positive perceptions of aging.
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影响因子：
1.5
作者：
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通讯作者：
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DOI：
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发表时间：
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影响因子：
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发表时间：
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影响因子：
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DOI：
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发表时间：
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期刊：
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
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