Feeling younger and identifying with older adults: Testing two routes to maintaining well-being in the face of age discrimination.

Feeling younger and identifying with older adults: Testing two routes to maintaining well-being in the face of age discrimination.

Integrating the social identity and aging literatures, this work tested the hypothesis that there are two independent, but simultaneous, responses by which adults transitioning into old age can buffer themselves against age discrimination: an individual response, which entails adopting a younger sub...

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Main Authors: Bibiana M Armenta, Katherine Stroebe, Susanne Scheibe, Tom Postmes, Nico W Van Yperen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5678732?pdf=render

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