Daily Views on Aging, Positive and Negative Experiences – Findings From Diverse Contexts and Countries
Anna Kornadt, Dwight Tse

TL;DR
This paper explores how daily positive and negative experiences influence people's views on aging across different countries and contexts.
Contribution
The study introduces new insights into how daily experiences moderate views on aging in diverse international samples.
Findings
War exposure in older adults increases subjective age.
Feeling closer to death decreases well-being, with religious affiliation moderating this effect.
Daily uplifts are linked to a younger subjective age, possibly through health mediation.
Abstract
Views on aging have recently been investigated regarding short term fluctuations and in relation to daily experiences. In the current symposium, we draw on international samples of the Subjective AGES consortium. We focus on how adverse and positive experiences are related to daily views on aging, such as subjective age and awareness of age-related changes. Senyk and colleagues investigate two samples of older adults from Ukraine and Israel find that war exposure increases subjective age. In a daily diary study with older adults from four different countries, Shrira et al. find that feeling closer to death on a given day decreases well-being, and that the strength of this relation was moderated by religious affiliation. Watson and Tse more broadly investigate the role of daily hassles and uplifts for subjective age among UK older adults. They find that especially uplifts contribute to a…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAging and Gerontology Research · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
