The present study tested whether chronological age moderates the association between subjective age and self-rated health and personality in a community-dwelling lifespan sample (N=1,016; agerange: 18-91). Self-rated health, extraversion, and openness to experience were associated with a younger subjective age at older ages. Conscientious individuals felt more mature early in life. Conscientiousness, neuroticism, and agreeableness were not related to subjective age at older ages. These findings suggest that with aging self-rated health and personality traits are increasingly important for subjective age.Keywords subjective age; personality; self-rated health; lifespan A growing body of research emphasizes the subjectivity of the aging process, as illustrated by the consistent finding that despite age-related changes, the majority of older adults feel younger than they actually are (Montepare, 2009;Mock & Eibach, 2011;Rubin & Berntsen, 2006). The tendency to feel younger or older than one's actual age is considered a crucial construct in old age, with implications for a variety of physical and psychological outcomes, including well-being (Stephan, Caudroit, & Chalabaev, 2011) and longevity (Kotter-Grühn, Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn, Gerstorf, & Smith, 2009). Drawing upon a lifespan developmental view, researchers have emphasized that more than being just a phenomenon specific to older adults, the discrepancy between subjective and chronological age emerges early in adulthood and changes across the lifespan (Galambos, Turner, & Tilton-Weaver, 2005;Montepare, 2009;Rubin & Berntsen, 2006). For example, younger adults feel the same age or slightly older than their actual age but feel increasingly younger than their actual age as they grow older (Galambos et al., 2005;Rubin & Berntsen, 2006). As a result, researchers have called for a lifespan approach to the study of the determinants of subjective age, with the assumption that their contribution may vary as a function of individuals' chronological age (Montepare, 2009). Although a great deal of research has focused on the predictors of subjective age, relatively few studies have considered the moderating role of chronological age.* Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Yannick Stephan, University of Among a set of potential predictors, self-rated health has been consistently found to account for a substantial proportion of variance in subjective age, whereas sociodemographic factors such as gender and education play only a minor role (Barak & Stern, 1986;Barrett, 2003;Hubley & Russell, 2009;Infurna, Gerstorf, Robertson, Berg, & Zarit, 2010;Rubin & Berntsen, 2006). However, little research has examined the possibility that the self-rated health-subjective age relationship might vary as function of chronological age. The only exception is Hubley and Russell (2009), who found that self-rated health explained a slightly greater proportion of subjective age for individuals 70 to 97 years old than for 55 to 69 years old. From a lifespan perspective...

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