ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Aging in Context: Incorporating Everyday Experiences Into the Study of Subjective Age.
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- Enhanced episodic specificity and socioemotional content in older adults' everyday autobiographical thoughts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The mediating role of attitudes to aging in the relationship between information overload, cyberchondria, and influenza vaccine hesitancy among Chinese older adults.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Relationships Between Functional Impairment, Depressive Symptoms, and Ageing Attitudes in Older Adults.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Momentary physical activity, subjective age, and the moderating role of pain.European journal of ageing · 2025Article
- How's Your Memory? Convergence of Objective and Subjective Memory Performance Using Ambulatory Assessment in Middle Age.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- Daily Fluctuations in Subjective Age among Older Adults: Links with Stressors, Positive Events, and Emotional Reactions.Gerontology · 2025Article
- Understanding Health, Subjective Aging, and Participation in Social Activities in Later Life: A Regional Finnish Survey.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2024Article
- Cognitive flexibility's role in shaping self-perception of aging, body appreciation, and self-efficacy among community-dwelling older women.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Blaming the young is always more accessible rather than accusing the older employees: an experimental view over age and health in organizations.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Feeling Younger on Active Summer Days? On the Interplay of Behavioral and Environmental Factors With Day-to-Day Variability in Subjective Age.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Testing Bidirectionality in Associations of Awareness of Age-Related Gains and Losses With Physical, Mental, and Cognitive Functioning Across 1 Year: The Role of Age.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Association between positive control in self-perceptions of aging and motoric cognitive risk syndrome among Chinese community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- "Aging Means to Me… That I Feel Lonely More Often"? An Experimental Study on the Effects of Age Simulation Regarding Views on Aging.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Dancing My Age: Emotions, Interactions, and Bodily Sensations.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
- A study on the factors influencing old age identity among the Chinese elderly.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Awareness of age-related change in the context of major life events.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- What Determines That Older Adults Feel Younger Than They Are? Results From a Nationally Representative Study in Germany.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
The age that a person feels is a strong predictor of their well-being and long-term health, beyond chronological age, showing that people have a self-awareness that provides insight into their aging process. It appears this insight has broad implications for a person's everyday life and functioning. One's subjective age is shaped by metacognitive beliefs about aging, including both expectations about typical changes but most notably the awareness and interpretation of personal experiences. Subjective age has been described as multidimensional, aligning with life domains such as cognitive, social, and physical functioning. This perspective, coupled with laboratory studies that manipulate subjective age, suggests that situational context has an important role in determining the age a person feels. Here we review literature on subjective age with a focus on how research and theoretical perspectives should be adapted to integrate momentary experiences. We propose a contextual model that will help discriminate the links between situational influences and subjective age, as well as resulting behaviors that impact health and well-being. While most research has considered subjective age to be a relatively stable variable, we provide a novel account of how daily life offers a variety of situational contexts and experiences that directly impact the age a person feels at a given moment. We propose that studying moment-to-moment context is a critical next step in understanding the associations between subjective age, lifestyle choices, and health outcomes.
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