ArticleAging & mental health2014
Felt age and cognitive-affective depressive symptoms in late life.
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- Correlates of felt age in caregivers of people with dementia: findings from the IDEAL study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Daily fluctuations in subjective age and depressive symptoms: the roles of attitudes to ageing and chronological age.European journal of ageing · 2022Article
- Prospective associations between subjective age and fear of falling in older adults.Aging & mental health · 2022Article
- Subjective age and inflammation risk in midlife adults: Findings from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) studies.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- Bidirectional relationship between subjective age and frailty: a prospective cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Subjective accelerated aging moderates the association between COVID-19 health worries and peritraumatic distress among older adults.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2021Article
- Physical activity and subjective age across adulthood in four samples.European journal of ageing · 2020Article
- Subjective Age and Cystatin C Among Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2019Article
- Subjective Age and Mortality in Three Longitudinal Samples.Psychosomatic medicine · 2018Article
- Subjective age and risk of incident dementia: Evidence from the National Health and Aging Trends survey.Journal of psychiatric research · 2018Article
- Feeling Older and the Development of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2017Article
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objectivesThis study examined both cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between felt age and cognitive-affective symptom dimensions of depression in late life.
methodData for this study came from two interview waves (T1 and T2) of the National Health and Aging Trend Study. Sample persons (n = 6680) who resided in their own or another's home at T1 were included. At T2 (one year later), 5414 of the original 6680 were interviewed and depressive symptom data were available for 5371 sample persons. The associations between felt age and depressive symptoms were analyzed using stepwise linear regression analyses.
resultsAt T1, (1) more than 70% of the sample felt younger and 7% felt older than their chronological age; and (2) younger felt age was associated with lower depressive symptoms, and older felt age was associated with higher depressive symptoms. Controlling for T1 depressive symptoms and health conditions, older felt age at T1 also predicted higher depressive symptoms at T2; however, chronological age and felt age explained only a small amount of variance in depressive symptom scores.
conclusionThe self-enhancement or self-protection function of younger felt age at T1 does not appear to extend longitudinally to T2, while the negative depressive effect of older felt age at T1 extends to T2.
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