Age-Related Attributions of Experienced Changes in Life: Origins and Implications

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa160" target="_blank" >10.1093/geronb/gbaa160</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Age-Related Attributions of Experienced Changes in Life: Origins and Implications

Original language description

Objectives: Attributing life changes to age represents a core marker of the subjective experience of aging. The aims of our study were to investigate views on aging (VA) as origins of age-related attributions of life changes and to investigate the implications of these age-related attributions for personal control (PC) and life satisfaction (LS). Methods: Life changes and the attribution of life changes to age were independently assessed on a large international sample of older adults (N = 2,900, age range 40-90 years) from the Ageing as Future project. The valence of VA, PC, and LS were also assessed to investigate possible determinants (VA) and consequences (PC and LS) of age-related attributions of life changes. Results: Attributions to age were shown to depend on the valence of experienced life changes, with more negative changes being linked to more age-related attributions. This relation was moderated by the valence of personally held VA, with more negative VA amplifying the relation between negative life changes and age-related attributions. Age-related attributions predicted reduced PC and lower LS and were found to exacerbate the effects of negative life changes on LS, especially for the older cohorts of our sample. Discussion: Our findings help to better understand what determines age-related attributions of life changes and highlight the negative consequences of attributing them to aging. Age-related attributions of change are a major factor that worsens the subjective aging experience. Methodologically, our study emphasizes the necessity to separately assess changes and their attributions to age.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

ISSN

1079-5014

e-ISSN

1758-5368

Volume of the periodical

76

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

881-893

UT code for WoS article

000649392500007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85105766249