Perceived expectations for active aging: the role of motivational and personality factors.

IF 2.8 3区医学 Q3 GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY

Aging & Mental Health Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-30 DOI:10.1080/13607863.2024.2385450

Sonja Radoš, Maria K Pavlova, Klaus Rothermund, Rainer K Silbereisen

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Abstract

Objectives: Perceived expectations for active aging (PEAA) reflect subjective exposure to social expectations about staying active and fit in old age, for example, by maintaining health and social engagement. We investigated whether motivational and personality factors were related to PEAA in the domains of physical health, mental health, and social engagement.

Method: We used a nationally representative sample of German adults (SOEP-IS) covering the entire adult life span (N = 2,007, age range 16-94 years) to test our pre-registered hypotheses.

Results: Multiple regression analyses indicated that motivation (i.e. life goals and health-related worries) was consistently associated with PEAA in the matching domains and mediated the effects of openness to experience on PEAA. No other personality trait was associated with PEAA.

Conclusion: Our findings suggest that individuals preferentially notice the expectations for active aging whose content relates to their personal concerns and goals.

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对积极老龄化的预期：动机和个性因素的作用。

目的：对积极老龄化的认知期望（PEAA）反映了人们对在老年时保持积极和健康的社会期望的主观感受，例如，通过保持健康和社会参与。我们研究了动机和人格因素是否与身体健康、心理健康和社会参与领域的 PEAA 有关：我们使用了一个具有全国代表性的德国成年人样本（SOEP-IS），涵盖了成年人的整个生命周期（样本数 = 2,007，年龄范围为 16-94 岁）来检验我们预先登记的假设：多元回归分析表明，动机（即生活目标和与健康相关的担忧）与匹配领域的 PEAA 始终相关，并且是经验开放性对 PEAA 影响的中介。其他人格特质均与 PEAA 无关：我们的研究结果表明，个人更倾向于注意到内容与其个人关注的问题和目标相关的积极老龄化期望。

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Aging & Mental Health 医学-精神病学

CiteScore

7.00

自引率

2.90%

发文量

176

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Aging & Mental Health provides a leading international forum for the rapidly expanding field which investigates the relationship between the aging process and mental health. The journal addresses the mental changes associated with normal and abnormal or pathological aging, as well as the psychological and psychiatric problems of the aging population. The journal also has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary and innovative approaches that explore new topics and methods. Aging & Mental Health covers the biological, psychological and social aspects of aging as they relate to mental health. In particular it encourages an integrated approach for examining various biopsychosocial processes and etiological factors associated with psychological changes in the elderly. It also emphasizes the various strategies, therapies and services which may be directed at improving the mental health of the elderly and their families. In this way the journal promotes a strong alliance among the theoretical, experimental and applied sciences across a range of issues affecting mental health and aging. The emphasis of the journal is on rigorous quantitative, and qualitative, research and, high quality innovative studies on emerging topics.