Feeling younger and identifying with older adults: Testing two routes to maintaining well-being in the face of age discrimination
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Feeling younger and identifying with older adults: Testing two routes to maintaining well-being in the face of age discrimination
Integrating the social identity and aging literatures, this work tested the hypothesis that there are two independent, but simultaneous, responses by which adults transitioning into old age can buffer themselves against age discrimination: an individual response, which entails adopting a younger subjective age when facing discrimination, and a collective response, which involves increasing iden...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187805