IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/eujoag/v14y2017i2d10.1007_s10433-016-0400-5.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Being slower, feeling older? Experimentally induced cognitive aging experiences have limited impact on subjective age

Author

Listed:
  • Martina Gabrian

    (Heidelberg University)

  • Hans-Werner Wahl

    (Heidelberg University)

Abstract

Initial experimental research has shown that subjective age may change in response to induced aging experiences, but replication and extension are needed. The present study investigates if age-related cognitive gain or loss experiences evoke decreases/increases in subjective age. A multidimensional subjective age measure was used to explore domain-specific internalization effects. 78 individuals aged 59–70 years were randomly assigned to two experimental conditions and a control group. Participants took a cognitive attention test and received gain-oriented feedback on their accuracy or loss-oriented feedback on their processing speed. A mixed factors analysis of covariance was used to examine changes in feel age, look age, do age, and interest age. After being primed with age-related losses, participants reported older do ages as compared to before the experimental priming. Priming age-related gains had only a marginally significant effect on do age. All other subjective age dimensions remained unaffected by the experimental priming. Although previous research has shown that subjective age can be manipulated experimentally, findings from the present study underscore that a comprehensive and cross-domain improvement of subjective age may require personally relevant and repeated experiences of age-related gains.

Suggested Citation

  • Martina Gabrian & Hans-Werner Wahl, 2017. "Being slower, feeling older? Experimentally induced cognitive aging experiences have limited impact on subjective age," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 14(2), pages 179-188, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eujoag:v:14:y:2017:i:2:d:10.1007_s10433-016-0400-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s10433-016-0400-5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10433-016-0400-5
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s10433-016-0400-5?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Martina Miche & Hans-Werner Wahl & Manfred Diehl & Frank Oswald & Roman Kaspar & Maren Kolb, 2014. "Natural Occurrence of Subjective Aging Experiences in Community-Dwelling Older Adults," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 69(2), pages 174-187.
    2. Dana Kotter-Grühn & Thomas M. Hess, 2012. "The Impact of Age Stereotypes on Self-perceptions of Aging Across the Adult Lifespan," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 67(5), pages 563-571.
    3. Anne E. Barrett, 2003. "Socioeconomic Status and Age Identity: The Role of Dimensions of Health in the Subjective Construction of Age," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 58(2), pages 101-109.
    4. Brad A. Meisner, 2012. "A Meta-Analysis of Positive and Negative Age Stereotype Priming Effects on Behavior Among Older Adults," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 67(1), pages 13-17.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Allyson Brothers & Martina Miche & Hans-Werner Wahl & Manfred Diehl, 2017. "Examination of Associations Among Three Distinct Subjective Aging Constructs and Their Relevance for Predicting Developmental Correlates," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 72(4), pages 547-560.
    2. Lotte P. Brinkhof & Sanne de Wit & Jaap M. J. Murre & Harm J. Krugers & K. Richard Ridderinkhof, 2022. "The Subjective Experience of Ageism: The Perceived Ageism Questionnaire (PAQ)," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(14), pages 1-21, July.
    3. Serena Sabatini & Obioha C. Ukoumunne & Allyson Brothers & Manfred Diehl & Hans-Werner Wahl & Clive Ballard & Rachel Collins & Anne Corbett & Helen Brooker & Linda Clare, 2022. "Differences in awareness of positive and negative age-related changes accounting for variability in health outcomes," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 1087-1097, December.
    4. Hannes Zacher & Cort W. Rudolph, 2023. "The Construction of the “Older Worker”," Merits, MDPI, vol. 3(1), pages 1-16, January.
    5. Verena Klusmann & Nanna Notthoff & Ann-Kristin Beyer & Anne Blawert & Martina Gabrian, 2020. "The assessment of views on ageing: a review of self-report measures and innovative extensions," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 403-433, December.
    6. Anne Cornelia Kroon & Damian Trilling & Martine Selm & Rens Vliegenthart, 2019. "Biased media? How news content influences age discrimination claims," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 16(1), pages 109-119, March.
    7. Schniter, Eric & Shields, Timothy W., 2014. "Ageism, honesty, and trust," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 19-29.
    8. Catherine E. Bowen & Svenja M. Spuling & Anna E. Kornadt & Maja Wiest, 2020. "Young people feel wise and older people feel energetic: comparing age stereotypes and self-evaluations across adulthood," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 435-444, December.
    9. Rippon, Isla & Steptoe, Andrew, 2018. "Is the relationship between subjective age, depressive symptoms and activities of daily living bidirectional?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 41-48.
    10. Martin Söllner & Mirjam Dürnberger & Johannes Keller & Arnd Florack, 2022. "The Impact of Age Stereotypes on Well-being: Strategies of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation as Mediator and Regulatory Focus as Moderator: Findings from a Cross-Sectional and a Longitudinal S," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 635-665, February.
    11. Caroline Noah Mwaikuka & Dr. Fred Wamalwa & Dr. Paschal Wambiya, 2023. "Institutional Culture and the Welfare of the Aged Population in Arusha District, Tanzania," International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), vol. 10(8), pages 211-225, August.
    12. Min Young Kim & Seieun Oh, 2020. "Nurses’ Perspectives on Health Education and Health Literacy of Older Patients," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(18), pages 1-11, September.
    13. Anna E Kornadt & Thomas M Hess & Peggy Voss & Klaus Rothermund, 2018. "Subjective Age Across the Life Span: A Differentiated, Longitudinal Approach," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 73(5), pages 767-777.
    14. Mariusz Wysokiński & Wiesław Fidecki & Tomasz Plech & Irena Wrońska & Magda Kamila Pawelec & Beata Dziedzic, 2020. "Perception of Old Age by the Inhabitants of Poland," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(7), pages 1-7, April.
    15. Joie Molden & Molly Maxfield, 2017. "The impact of aging stereotypes on dementia worry," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 29-37, March.
    16. Stefan Hopf & Kieran Walsh & Eilionóir Flynn & Nena Georgantzi, 2021. "The Relationship between Ageism and Well-Being as Mediated through COVID-19-Related Experiences and Discourses," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(19), pages 1-17, October.
    17. Pannhorst, Matthias & Dost, Florian, 2019. "Marketing innovations to old-age consumers: A dynamic Bass model for different life stages," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 140(C), pages 315-327.
    18. Liat Ayalon & Clemens Tesch-Römer, 2017. "Taking a closer look at ageism: self- and other-directed ageist attitudes and discrimination," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 1-4, March.
    19. Liat Ayalon & Klaus Rothermund, 2018. "Examining the utility of national indicators of relative age disadvantage in Europe," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 15(2), pages 189-197, June.
    20. Anne J. Dutt & Hans-Werner Wahl, 2019. "Future time perspective and general self-efficacy mediate the association between awareness of age-related losses and depressive symptoms," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 227-236, June.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:eujoag:v:14:y:2017:i:2:d:10.1007_s10433-016-0400-5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.