CUMULATIVE STRESS BUFFER: POSITIVE AGING SELF-STEREOTYPES PREDICT LOWER CORTISOL ACROSS THIRTY YEARS

Assessing aging stereotypes: Personal stereotypes, self-stereotypes and self-perception of aging.

BACKGROUND There is a broad semantic network of aging stereotypes; where different concepts and their measurement are confused: personal stereotypes, self-stereotypes and self-perception of aging. METHOD First, we analyze the translated version of the Image of Aging Scale (IAS) measurement model through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, with two representative sub-samples of the S...

The impact of age stereotypes on self-perceptions of aging across the adult lifespan.

OBJECTIVES Individuals' perceptions of their own age(ing) are important correlates of well-being and health. The goals of the present study were to (a) examine indicators of self-perceptions of aging across adulthood and (b) experimentally test whether age stereotypes influence self-perceptions of aging. METHOD Adults 18-92 years of age were presented with positive, negative, or no age stereo...

Mind matters: cognitive and physical effects of aging self-stereotypes.

In the first part of this article, a wide range of research is drawn upon to describe the process by which aging stereotypes are internalized in younger individuals and then become self-stereotypes when individuals reach old age. The second part consists of a review of the author's cross-cultural, experimental, and longitudinal research that examines the cognitive and physical effects of aging ...

The Positive (and Negative) Consequences of Endorsing Negative Self- stereotypes

Positive correlations and buffer occupancy: Lower bound via supermodular ordering

We use recent advances from the theory of multivariate stochastic orderings to formalize the “folk theorem” to the effect that positive correlations lead to increased buffer occupancy and larger buffer levels at a discrete-time infinite capacity multiplexer queue. Input sequences will be compared in the supermodular (sm) ordering and buffer contents in the increasing convex (icx) ordering, resp...