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The Combined Effects of Daily Stressors and Major Life Events on Daily Subjective Ages

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  • Jennifer A. Bellingtier
  • Shevaun D. Neupert
  • Dana Kotter-Grühn

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Objectives:Stressors may be a contributing factor in determining how old an individual feels, looks, or would like to be. Currently, little research has been devoted to understanding the relationship between stressors and subjective age in older adults. We focus on the combined impact of major life-event stressors and daily stressors on multiple indicators of subjective age: felt age, ideal age, and look age. Furthermore, we examine the process by which daily stressors relate to subjective ages by testing whether positive affect, control, and negative affect mediate this relationship.Method:Using a daily-diary design, the current study measured older adults’ (60–96 years old) stressors, subjective ages, personal control, and affect.Results:Felt, ideal, and look ages each demonstrated a unique pattern of interactions between daily stressors and major life-event stressors. Furthermore, our findings suggest that on the daily level, the relationship between stressors and felt age is mediated by negative affect but not by control and positive affect.Discussion:Findings indicate the need to consider the broader contextual picture of stressors, as well as their differential impact on multiple indicators of subjective age.

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  • Jennifer A. Bellingtier & Shevaun D. Neupert & Dana Kotter-Grühn, 2017. "The Combined Effects of Daily Stressors and Major Life Events on Daily Subjective Ages," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 72(4), pages 613-621.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:72:y:2017:i:4:p:613-621.
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    1. Alaina N. English & Jennifer A. Bellingtier & Shevaun D. Neupert, 2019. "It’s “the Joneses”: the influence of objective and subjective socioeconomic status on subjective perceptions of aging," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 16(1), pages 121-128, March.
    2. Joann M. Montepare, 2020. "Publisher Correction to: An exploration of subjective age, actual age, age awareness, and engagement in everyday," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 489-497, December.
    3. Joann M. Montepare, 2020. "An exploration of subjective age, actual age, age awareness, and engagement in everyday behaviors," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 299-307, September.

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