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The relative importance of personal beliefs, meta-stereotypes and societal ster...
Fasel, N.; Vauclair, C.-M.; Lima, M. L.; Abrams, D.Negative images of old age can harm older individuals' cognitive and physical functioning and health. Yet, older people may be confronted with age stereotypes that are inconsistent with their own personal beliefs. We examine the implications for older people's wellbeing of three distinct elements of age stereotypes: their personal beliefs about their age group, their perception about how others generally percei...
Perceived age discrimination across age in Europe: from an ageing society to a ...
Bratt, C.; Abrams, D.; Swift, H. J.; Vauclair, C.-M.; Marques, S.Ageism is recognized as a significant obstacle to older people's well-being, but age discrimination against younger people has attracted less attention. We investigate levels of perceived age discrimination across early to late adulthood, using data from the European Social Survey (ESS), collected in 29 countries (N = 56,272). We test for approximate measurement invariance across countries. We use local structu...
Ageism in the European Region: findings from the European Social Survey
Swift, H. J.; Abrams, D.; Marques, S.; Vauclair, C.-M.; Bratt, C.; Lima, M.-L.The Ageism module fielded in the 2008–2009 European Social Survey (ESS) across 29 representative samples in the European region (with over 55,000 respondents) is the first major internationally comparable study of individual and societal attitudes to age differences, and ageism. This chapter provides an overview and a review of what has been discovered. The chapter will introduce the module and the theoretical ...
Are you talking to the future me? The moderator role of future self‐relevance o...
Marques, S.; Mariano, J.; Lima, M. L.; Abrams, D.Increasing the salience of aging has been shown to be a promising strategy to promote young adults' interest in saving for retirement. However, the processes responsible for this effect are still largely unknown. We hypothesize that increased savings choices will only occur when participants are also engaged in self?relevant thoughts about their own future. Participants were exposed to a fictitious website adve...
Children’s attitudes toward older people: current and future directions
Mendonça, J.; Marques, S.; Abrams, D.The children of today will be the adults of tomorrow and thus their attitudes toward older people lay the ground for their future self-concept and psychological well-being. Understanding how young children perceive older people is thus of crucial importance in an ageing world. The literature suggests mixed findings regarding the existence of ageism among children, which may be an artifact of the diversity measu...
Are Asian cultures really less ageist than Western ones?: it depends on the que...
Vauclair, C.-M.; Hanke, K.; Huang, L.-L.; Abrams, D.Ageism is an increasing concern in ageing populations such as Asia and Europe. A prevalent assumption in psychology is that Eastern cultures may be less prone to ageism because of norms and values that honour and respect elders. Yet, evidence for this culture hypothesis is inconclusive. The current study examines this issue by comparing attitudes towards older people in an Eastern and Western samples of 184 you...
Social psychology and gerontology: integrating theory to explain and intervene ...
Marques, S.; Vauclair, C.-M.; Swift, H. J.; Bratt, C.; Lima, M. L.; Abrams, D.Today, age discrimination is one of the most fundamental forms of discrimination endured by Europeans. In an aging society this carries important consequences for the overall health and wellbeing of European citizens. This chapter discusses how integrating Social Psychology with Gerontology theorizing may contribute to the design of proper research and interventions dealing with this pressing social issue. To i...
What do older people think that others think of them, and does it matter? The r...
Vauclair, C.-M.; Lima, M. L.; Abrams, D.; Swift, H.; Bratt, C.Psychological theories of aging highlight the importance of social context. However, very little research has distinguished empirically between older people’s perception of how others in their social context perceive them (personal meta-perceptions) and the shared perceptions in society (societal meta-perceptions). Drawing on theories of intergroup relations and stereotyping and using a multilevel perspective, ...
Perceived age discrimination as a mediator of the association between income in...
Vauclair, C.-M.; Marques, S.; Lima, M. L.; Abrams, D.; Swift, H.; Bratt, C.Objectives. The relative income hypothesis predicts poorer health in societies with greater income inequality. This article examines whether the psychosocial factors of perceived age discrimination and (lack of) social capital may help explain the adverse effect of inequality on older people's health. Methods. Self-rated health, perceived age discrimination, and social capital were assessed in the 2008/9 Europe...
Subjective social status of older people across countries: the role of moderniz...
Vauclair, C.-M.; Marques, S.; Lima, M. L.; Bratt, C.; Swift, H. J.; Abrams, D.Objectives. To test and expand upon modernization theory's account of subjective social status (SSS) of older people in society. It was hypothesized that perceptions of older people's social status should be higher in more modernized countries and that the proportion of older people in employment should moderate the relationship between modernization and SSS of older people. Methods. Data were from the "Experie...