SUBJECTIVE AGE DIVERSITY, AGE DISCRIMINATION CLIMATE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH

Age diversity, age discrimination climate and performance consequencesa cross organizational study

This paper deals with the emergence of perceived age discrimination climate on the company level and its performance consequences. In this new approach to the field of diversity research, we investigated (a) the effect of organizational-level age diversity on collective perceptions of age discrimination climate that (b) in turn should influence the collective affective commitment of employees, ...

Age discrimination in health and social care

How Old Do You Feel? The Role of Age Discrimination and Biological Aging in Subjective Age

Subjective age, or how young or old individuals experience themselves to be relative to their chronological age, is a crucial construct in gerontology. Subjective age is a significant predictor of important health outcomes, but little is known about the criteria by which individuals' subjectively evaluate their age. To identify psychosocial and biomedical factors linked to the subjective evalua...

Stress and Subjective Age

Subjective indicators of age add to our understanding of the aging process beyond the role of chronological age. We examined whether financial stress contributes to subjective age as rated by others and the self. The participants (N 1⁄4 228), 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 ...

Age Discrimination in Mental Health Services