An experimental study of mindfulness and acceptance-based skills for internalized ageism in older adults and college students

Effectiveness of a Process Based Intervention in Decreasing Internalized Ageism

“…Thus, the fact that these variables had relatively large mediating impacts on self-perceptions of aging, and that psychological flexibility was the sole mediator of sustained change in perceptions of older adults, makes sense within the context of the broader psychological intervention literature. It should be noted that results from this study seemingly contradicts one study which found an ACT exercise had no impact on internalized ageism in older adults or college students (Lester & Murrell, 2022). However, that intervention included a brief 13-minute non-ageism-related exercise.…”

“…Other interventions focused solely on self-perceptions of aging found small effect sizes (Beyer et al, 2019), or no difference of self-perceptions of aging across experimental conditions (Menkin et al, 2022). Intervention outcomes pertaining to the outward manifestation of internalized ageism have been mixed, with research finding no impact (Lester & Murrell, 2022), small effects (Wolff et al, 2017), and in one case, large effects (Doncel-García et al, 2023). Doncel-García et al (2023) found large reductions in the endorsement of aging stereotypes.…”

The Effect of Empowering Education Combined With Mindfulness Meditation Training on Negative Emotion and Quality of Life in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

“…addition, the medical expenses caused by long-term treatment are easy to increase the economic burden of families, which makes patients have different degrees of anxiety, depression and other negative emotions ( Abautret-Daly et al, 2018 ). Negative emotions and the occurrence and development of inflammatory bowel disease will affect each other, which can affect the secretion of intestinal hormones and intestinal motility by changing the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis or affecting the intestinal flora, aggravate the clinical symptoms of patients with inflammatory bowel disease and increase the possibility of recurrence ( Lester and Murrell, 2021 ). Therefore, for patients with inflammatory bowel disease, clinical attention should be paid to psychological intervention.…”

Una mirada contextual al edadismo

“…Por tratarse de una cuestión de construcción social, podemos definirla de diferentes maneras, en función de si nos referimos a la edad cronológica (según el número de años), la edad fisiológica (relacionado con el funcionamiento de nuestros órganos), la edad psicológica (lo que representa para cada individuo el paso de los años) o la edad social (definida por los roles sociales de las personas mayores en el contexto de cada cultura o sociedad). Es por esta razón que el concepto de vejez ha ido variando a lo largo de la historia y en función del contexto en el que se trate (Alvarado y Salazar, 2014;Fernández-Ballesteros, 2008;Lehr, 1980).…”