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Historical Cohort Differences in Views on Aging in the US: A Trend Toward Longer Midlife but Older Felt Age.
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- Old age is perceived to begin later: cross-European differences and the role of macro-level factors for the historical change in the perceived onset of old age.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- The digital dividend of the views on aging: how digital engagement influences subjective aging in Chinese older adults.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Perceptions of individual and societal onset of old age: associations with views on aging in a sample aged 16 to 96 years.European journal of ageing · 2025Article
- Midlife blues: A lifespan perspective on midlife depressive symptoms.Psychology and aging · 2025Article
- Maintaining a young self-concept: Feeling young or shifting age thresholds?European journal of ageing · 2025Article
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Abstract
This study compared equal age groups from two cohorts from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study surveyed at different times to characterize societal changes in measures of subjective age and age threshold. Two successive MIDUS cohorts were utilized (1995-1996 and 2011-2014; age range 25-74). Outcomes included subjective age (felt age and desired age) and age threshold. Following multiple imputations of missing data and balancing methods, weighted linear regression measured associations between subjective age outcomes and cohort, sex, and chronological age. Individuals of the later MIDUS cohort reported older felt age and younger desired age in middle age groups (35-64 years old). An increase in age threshold was observed only in older age groups (65+). Possible underlying historical changes in health and societal age stereotypes are explored to explain the observed trend toward older felt age and age threshold, but a younger desired age.
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