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Awareness of Aging in Taiwan and the United States : An Examination of Ageism among College Students using Stereotypes and Future Self-views

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Allen, Pamela M.

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Ageism in the context of global population aging could lead to increasing human and economic costs. Age stereotypes tend to be negative (Hummert, 1990) and ubiquitous (Nelson, 2002) there are a variety of well documented detrimental consequences of negative age stereotypes on older adults' physical, cognitive and psychological outcomes (Hummert,...

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Dissertation

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: ______________________________________________________ Karen A. Hooker Ageism in the context of global population aging could lead to
Personality, Self-Perceptions, and Daily Variability in Perceived Usefulness Among Older Adults

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Allen, Pamela M., Mejía, Shannon T., and Hooker, Karen

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Age based self-stereotyping is associated with a variety of long-term physical health and psychological well-being outcomes for older people. However, little is known about how older individuals’ day-to-day experiences of functional limitations may be related to concurrent self-appraisals on dimensions representing negative age stereotypes. We examined how distal personality traits...

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Author Note Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Karen Hooker, School of