Attitudes Toward Aging Increasing Optimism Found with Age

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Abstract
532 respondents over a wide age range rated their own lives and an “average person's life” at each of eight age intervals. Ratings varied significantly by age of target and of respondent and were increasingly differentiated as a function of both the age level being evaluated and the respondent's age. Most notably, older subjects rated their lives as better than younger subjects projected their lives would be at the same age. These data revealed a significant lack of awareness in younger people of the potential satisfaction in the middle and later years.

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