Change In Subjective Age among the Elderly: A Longitudinal Analysis
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 23 (4) , 422-427
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/23.4.422
Abstract
Change in subjective age was investigated with longitudinal data on 323 older people using discriminant function analysis. It was found that subjects who changed from young or middle-aged to old subjective ages over a four-year period were (other factors being equal)less educated, older, in poorer health at Time 1, and had shown greater declines in healthfrom Time 1 to Time 2. No significant differences were found between subjects who changedfrom old to middle-aged or young subjective ages and those who retained old subjective ages.Keywords
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