Category: Ageing Stereotypes

Sexuality + physical attractiveness…

Avalos, L., Tylka, T. L., & Wood-Barcalow, N. (2005). The body appreciation scale: Development and psychometric evaluation. Body image, 2(3), 285-297.

Cash, T. F. (2012). Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance. Academic Press..

Grogan, S. (2021). Body image: Understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women and children. Routledge.

Quittkat, H. L., Hartmann, A. S., Düsing, R., Buhlmann, U., & Vocks, S. (2019). Body dissatisfaction, importance of appearance, and body appreciation in men and women over the lifespan. Frontiers in psychiatry, 10, 864.

Vossbeck-Elsebusch, A. N., Waldorf, M., Legenbauer, T., Bauer, A., Cordes, M., & Vocks, S. (2014). German version of the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire–Appearance Scales (MBSRQ-AS): confirmatory factor analysis and validation. Body image, 11(3), 191-200.

Physiology + personal VoA

Crăciun, I. C. (2023). Fostering Development in Midlife and Older Age: A Positive Psychology Perspective. Springer Nature.

Levy, B. (2009). Stereotype embodiment: A psychosocial approach to aging. Current directions in psychological science, 18(6), 332-336.

Levy, B. R., & Bavishi, A. (2018). Survival advantage mechanism: Inflammation as a mediator of positive self-perceptions of aging on longevity. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 73(3), 409-412.

Levy, B. R., Moffat, S., Resnick, S. M., Slade, M. D., & Ferrucci, L. (2016). Buffer against cumulative stress. GeroPsych.

Levy, B. R., Slade, M. D., Kunkel, S. R., & Kasl, S. V. (2002). Longevity increased by positive self-perceptions of aging. Journal of personality and social psychology, 83(2), 261.

Levy, B. R., Slade, M. D., May, J., & Caracciolo, E. A. (2006). Physical recovery after acute myocardial infarction: Positive age self-stereotypes as a resource. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 62(4), 285-301.

Wurm, S., & Schäfer, S. K. (2022). Gain-but not loss-related self-perceptions of aging predict mortality over a period of 23 years: A multidimensional approach. Journal of personality and social psychology.

Personal VoA + Ageing…

Coudin, G., & Alexopoulos, T. (2010). ‘Help me! I’m old!’How negative aging stereotypes create dependency among older adults. Aging & mental health, 14(5), 516-523.

Kornadt, A. E., Kessler, E. M., Wurm, S., Bowen, C. E., Gabrian, M., & Klusmann, V. (2020). Views on ageing: A lifespan perspective. European Journal of Ageing, 17, 387-401.

Levy, B. (1996). Improving memory in old age through implicit self-stereotyping. Journal of personality and social psychology, 71(6), 1092.

Levy, B. R., Hausdorff, J. M., Hencke, R., & Wei, J. Y. (2000). Reducing cardiovascular stress with positive self-stereotypes of aging. The journals of gerontology series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 55(4), P205-P213.

Levy, B. R., & Myers, L. M. (2004). Preventive health behaviors influenced by self-perceptions of aging. Preventive medicine, 39(3), 625-629.

Levy, B. R., Slade, M. D., Kunkel, S. R., & Kasl, S. V. (2002). Longevity increased by positive self-perceptions of aging. Journal of personality and social psychology, 83(2), 261.

Psychological expectations +…

Allport, G. W. (1954). The nature of prejudice. Perseus Publishing.

Levy, B. (2009). Stereotype embodiment: A psychosocial approach to aging. Current directions in psychological science, 18(6), 332-336.

Levy, B. R., Slade, M. D., & Kasl, S. V. (2002). Longitudinal benefit of positive self-perceptions of aging on functional health. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 57(5), P409-P417.

Mead, G. H. (1934). Mind, self, and society. Chicago: University of Chicago press.

Merton, R. K. (1968). Social theory and social structure. Simon and Schuster.

Impact of trauma + PTSD

Cherry, K. E. (Ed.). (2015). Traumatic stress and long-term recovery: Coping with disasters and other negative life events. Springer.

Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1995). Resources, personal strivings, and subjective well-being: a nomothetic and idiographic approach. Journal of personality and social psychology, 68(5), 926. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.68.5.926

Hoffman, Y. S., Shrira, A., Cohen-Fridel, S., Grossman, E. S., & Bodner, E. (2016). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms as a function of the interactive effect of subjective age and subjective nearness to death. Personality and Individual Differences, 102, 245-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.07.017

Palgi, Y., Gelkopf, M., & Berger, R. (2015). The inoculating role of previous exposure to potentially traumatic life events on coping with prolonged exposure to rocket attacks: A lifespan perspective. Psychiatry Research, 227(2-3), 296-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.03.020

Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Avidor, S., Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2019). Understanding the long-term connections between posttraumatic stress, subjective age, and successful aging among midlife and older adults. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1), 1583523. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2019.1583523

Turner, P. K., Runtz, M. G., & Galambos, N. L. (1999). Sexual abuse, pubertal timing, and subjective age in adolescent girls: A research note. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 17(2), 111-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646839908409091

Subjective ageing: conglomerate…

Carr, D., Freedman, V. A., Cornman, J. C., & Schwarz, N. (2014). Happy marriage, happy life? Marital quality and subjective well‐being in later life. Journal of Marriage and Family, 76(5), 930-948. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12133

Cohn-Schwartz, E., Segel-Karpas, D., & Ayalon, L. (2021). Longitudinal dyadic effects of aging self-perceptions on health. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(5), 900-909. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa082

Kim, Y. K., Kim, K., Neupert, S. D., & Boerner, K. (2021). Changes in married older adults’ self-perceptions of aging: The role of gender. Psychology and Aging, 36(3), 383. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000507

Schafer, M. H., & Shippee, T. P. (2010). Age identity in context: Stress and the subjective side of aging. Social Psychology Quarterly, 73(3), 245-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272510379751

An open + fluid mindset…

Haslam, C., Jetten, J., Cruwys, T., Dingle, G., & Haslam, S. A. (2018). The new psychology of health: Unlocking the social cure. Routledge.

Jackson, J. J., Hill, P. L., Payne, B. R., Roberts, B. W., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2012). Can an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks? Cognitive training increases openness to experience in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 27(2), 286–292. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025918

Lerner, R. M. (1984). On the nature of human plasticity. Cambridge University Press.

The Big Five (OCEAN) Personality test. https://bigfive-test.com/

Weiss, D. (2018). On the inevitability of aging: Essentialist beliefs moderate the impact of negative age stereotypes on older adults’ memory performance and physiological reactivity. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 73(6), 925-933. https://doi-org/10.1093/geronb/gbw087

Weiss, D., & Diehl, M. (2021). Measuring (non) essentialist beliefs about the process of aging. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(7), 1340-1348. https://doi-org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa113

Weiss, D., Job, V., Mathias, M., Grah, S., & Freund, A. M. (2016). The end is (not) near: Aging, essentialism, and future time perspective. Developmental psychology, 52(6), 996. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000115

Weiss, D., Reitz, A. K., & Stephan, Y. (2019). Is age more than a number? The role of openness and (non) essentialist beliefs about aging for how young or old people feel. Psychology and Aging, 34(5), 729. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000370

Biological + Psychosocial Ageing…

Ball, K., Berch, D. B., Helmers, K. F., Jobe, J. B., Leveck, M. D., Marsiske, Morris, J. N., Rebok, G. W., Smith, D. M., Tennstedt, S. L., Unverzagt, F. W., Willis, S. L., for the ACTIVE Study Group. (2002). Effects of cognitive training interventions with older adults: a randomized controlled trial. Jama, 288(18), 2271-2281.

Baumgart, M., Snyder, H. M., Carrillo, M. C., Fazio, S., Kim, H., & Johns, H. (2015). Summary of the evidence on modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia: a population-based perspective. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 11(6), 718-726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2015.05.016

Lachman, M. E., Lipsitz, L., Lubben, J., Castaneda-Sceppa, C., & Jette, A. M. (2018). When adults don’t exercise: Behavioral strategies to increase physical activity in sedentary middle-aged and older adults. Innovation in aging, 2(1), igy007.

Lindland, E., Fond, M., Haydon, A., & Kendall-Taylor, N. Gauging Aging. https://www.rrf.org/wp-content/uploads/Frameworks-Institute-Gauging-Aging.pdf

Olshansky, S. J., Perry, D., Miller, R. A., & Butler, R. N. (2007). Pursuing the longevity dividend: scientific goals for an aging world. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1114(1), 11-13. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1396.050

Roberts, B. W., & Mroczek, D. (2008). Personality trait change in adulthood. Current directions in psychological science, 17(1), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00543.x

Schaie, K. W. (2005). Developmental influences on adult intelligence: The Seattle longitudinal study. Oxford University Press.

Sexuality later in…

Estill, A., Mock, S. E., Schryer, E., & Eibach, R. P. (2018). The effects of subjective age and aging attitudes on mid-to-late-life sexuality. The Journal of Sex Research, 55(2), 146-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2017.1293603

Smith, L., Yang, L., Veronese, N., Soysal, P., Stubbs, B., & Jackson, S. E. (2019). Sexual activity is associated with greater enjoyment of life in older adults. Sexual Medicine, 7(1), 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esxm.2018.11.001

Srinivasan, S., Glover, J., Tampi, R. R., Tampi, D. J., & Sewell, D. D. (2019). Sexuality and the older adult. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21, 1-9. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11920-019-1090-4

Woet L. Gianotten, Jenna C. Alley & Lisa M. Diamond (2021). The health benefits of sexual expression. International Journal of Sexual Health, 33(4), 478-493, DOI: 10.1080/19317611.2021.1966564

World Health Organization (2002). Defining sexual health: Report of a technical consultation on sexual health.  http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/sexual_health/defining_sexual_health.pdf

Human ageing is…

Baltes, P. B. (1987). Theoretical propositions of life-span developmental psychology: On the dynamics between growth and decline. Developmental psychology, 23(5), 611. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.23.5.611.

Levy, B. (2009). Stereotype embodiment: A psychosocial approach to aging. Current directions in psychological science, 18(6), 332-336. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01662.x.

Tully-Wilson, C., Bojack, R., Millear, P. M., Stallman, H. M., Allen, A., & Mason, J. (2021). Self-perceptions of aging: A systematic review of longitudinal studies. Psychology and Aging, 36(7), 773. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000638.