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Stress and subjective age
— those with greater financial stress look older | | Author(s) | Stefan Agrigoroaei, Angela Lee-Attardo, Margie E Lachman |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 39, no 10, December 2017 |
| Publisher | Sage, December 2017 |
| Pages | pp 1075-1099 |
| Full text* | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0164027516658502?journalCode=roaa |
| Annotation | Subjective indicators of age add to our understanding of the ageing process beyond the role of chronological age. The authors examined whether financial stress contributes to subjective age as rated by others and the self. The 228 participants (aged 26-75) were from a Boston area satellite of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) longitudinal study. Participants reported how old they felt and how old they thought they looked. Observers assessed the participants' age based on photographs from two different times, an average of 10 years apart. Financial stress was measured at Time 1. Controlling for income, general stress, health and attractiveness, participants who reported higher levels of financial stress were perceived as older than their actual age to a greater extent, and showed larger increases in other-look age over time. The authors consider the results on accelerated ageing of appearance with regard to their implications for interpersonal interactions and in relation to health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171201212 A |
| Classmark | SD: SE: BA: BG: W6: QNH: 3J: 7T |
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