TY - JOUR
T1 - Attitudes toward aging
T2 - A glance back at research developments over the past 75years
AU - Chu, Li
AU - Lay, Jennifer C.
AU - LingTsang, Vivian Hiu
AU - Fung, Helene H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.
PY - 2020/6/2
Y1 - 2020/6/2
N2 - With global aging, it is crucial to understand how older adults and the process of aging are viewed by members of society. These attitudes can often influence how older adults are treated. Since the Journal of Gerontology was founded, we have gained increasing insights into attitudes toward aging, with several notable research developments, including clearer conceptualization of different types of aging attitudes (e.g., life-domain-specific attitudes and self-perceptions of aging), a wider variety of measurements, better understanding of how different social determinants shape aging attitudes, and more sophisticated investigations of cultural variance and invariance in aging attitudes. In this article, we highlight these major shifts in the field of aging attitudes in the past 75 years, discuss the contributions of these developments, and point to potential future directions.
AB - With global aging, it is crucial to understand how older adults and the process of aging are viewed by members of society. These attitudes can often influence how older adults are treated. Since the Journal of Gerontology was founded, we have gained increasing insights into attitudes toward aging, with several notable research developments, including clearer conceptualization of different types of aging attitudes (e.g., life-domain-specific attitudes and self-perceptions of aging), a wider variety of measurements, better understanding of how different social determinants shape aging attitudes, and more sophisticated investigations of cultural variance and invariance in aging attitudes. In this article, we highlight these major shifts in the field of aging attitudes in the past 75 years, discuss the contributions of these developments, and point to potential future directions.
KW - Age stereotypes
KW - Aging attitudes
KW - Self-perceptions of aging
KW - Views on aging
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U2 - 10.1093/geronb/gbz155
DO - 10.1093/geronb/gbz155
M3 - Article
C2 - 32484890
AN - SCOPUS:85085909678
SN - 1079-5014
VL - 75
SP - 1125
EP - 1129
JO - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
JF - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
IS - 6
ER -