Subjective age, age identity, and middle-age adults

Steitz, Jean A.; McClary, Alicia M.

doi:10.1080/03610738808259728

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“…Subjective, personal, or perceived age refers to how old or young individuals perceive themselves to be (Steitz & McClary, 1988). It has been measured with questions similar to the following: "Would you say you feel young, middle aged, old, or very old?"…”

Section: Subjective Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Self- and supervisory perspectives on age and work attitudes and performance.

Cleveland

Shore²

1992

Journal of Applied Psychology

232

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Person- and context-oriented definitions of age were used to predict three sets of work outcomes: work attitudes, performance ratings, and reports of developmental practices. The five age measures included employee chronological age, employee subjective age (i.e., self-perceptions of age), and social age (i.e., others' perceptions of age), as well as self- and supervisors' perceptions of the employee's relative age (i.e., compared with the employee's work group). The study assessed (a) the relationships among the age measures, (b) the additive relationships among the age measures that predicted work outcomes, and (c) the interactive relationships among the age measures that predicted work outcomes. Each prediction received some support except for (b). Furthermore, many of the age--work-outcome relationships were replicated in the managerial sample. Implications for the use of alternative age measures are discussed.

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Section: Subjective Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Self- and supervisory perspectives on age and work attitudes and performance.

Cleveland

Shore²

1992

Journal of Applied Psychology

232

150

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“…Previous research has examined measures of subjective age, social age and perceived relative age. Subjective age (also called personal or perceived age) refers to how old or young individuals perceive themselves to be (Steitz and McClary, 1988). It re¯ects the age group with which the individual is most closely identi®ed, either based on chronological age or on the basis of shared characteristics.…”

Section: Alternative Measures Of Agementioning

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Person- and context-oriented perceptual age measures: additional evidence of distinctiveness and usefulness

Cleveland¹,

Shore²,

Murphy³

1997

J. Organiz. Behav.

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SummaryCleveland and Shore (1992) suggested that four perceptual age measures could be grouped into person-oriented and context-oriented factors. This study examined longitudinal data from their same sample, and tested three propositions related to the distinctiveness and usefulness of the age measures. Con®rmatory factor analyses showed that the factor structure proposed by Cleveland and Shore was invariant over time, and that new multi-item scales measuring two types of age loaded on appropriate factors. As hypothesized, context-oriented measures showed less temporal stability than personoriented measures, and the temporal relationships among person-oriented measures were more easily explained in terms of a strict simplex structure than was the case for context-oriented measures. Perceptual age measures accounted for variance in self-ratings and managers' ratings of employee health, self-ratings of retirement intentions, and managers' ratings of promotability not accounted for by chronological age.

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“…This scale and the gap between chronological and cognitive age, can be used interchangeably to measure the same concept (Chua, Cote and Leong, 1990;Hubley and Hultsch, 1994;Johnson, 1995). The first measurement lets us characterize the age to which individuals identify, and the second determines the direction and the size of the subjective age bias, the tendency to see oneself as either older or younger than one's chronological age (Steitz andMcClary, 1985, 1988;Staats, 1996). This ambiguity has managerial and methodological repercussions: should the researcher identify the causes of cognitive age or the subjective age bias?…”

Section: The Conceptual Framework Of the Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%