Views on ageing (VoA) have special relevance for the ageing process by influencing health,
well-being, and longevity. Although VoA form early in life, so far, most research has …

This chapter reviews the literature published in the past decade on the topic of self-
perceptions of aging, broadly defined. After a brief review of past approaches and their …

This article updates and extends an earlier meta-analysis (Westerhof et al., 2014) on the
longitudinal effects of subjective aging (SA) on health outcomes. A systematic search in …

Objectives Although the evidence linking views on aging (VoA) with aging outcomes is
robust, little is known about how different types of VoA may interact to influence such …

Most research documenting bias against older adults has been conducted in individualistic
and industrialized cultures. In the current study, we examined cultural variation in attitudes …

Objectives: Although numerous studies have documented that negative age stereotypes and
perceived age discrimination are related to older adults' lower well-being, few studies have …

Emerging evidence suggests that people not only categorize themselves and others based
on age but also in terms of their generational membership. This cross-cultural study …

Objectives Negative age stereotypes have negative, assimilative effects on the subjective
aging experience due to internalization processes, but sometimes positive contrast effects …

Objectives: Evidence linking subjective concerns about cognition with poorer objective
cognitive performance is limited by reliance on unidimensional measures of self-perceptions …

Older adults are faced with prescriptions to remain fit and socially engaged (active aging) or
limit consumption of social resources (altruistic disengagement), and violations of these may …