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How social and temporal comparisons shape subjective aging. 社会和时间的比较如何塑造主观衰老。

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Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000917

David Weiss, M Clara P de Paula Couto, Klaus Rothermund

{"title":"How social and temporal comparisons shape subjective aging.","authors":"David Weiss, M Clara P de Paula Couto, Klaus Rothermund","doi":"10.1037/pag0000917","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pag0000917","url":null,"abstract":"How we perceive and evaluate our own aging is shaped by both social and temporal comparisons. Social comparison involves evaluating oneself in relation to others, whereas temporal comparison focuses on assessing changes within oneself over time. Comparative information can produce opposing effects, causing individuals to feel either relatively younger or older than their chronological age: While temporal comparisons are often perceived as threatening in the second half of life, social comparisons are frequently employed to bolster self-perceptions. We investigated how social and temporal comparisons shape subjective aging in two studies, a longitudinal (Study 1, N = 2,425, 39-93 years; 55.5% women) and an experimental study (Study 2, N = 160, 50-75 years, 58% women). The results of both studies demonstrate that \"me vs. them\" comparisons result in feeling relatively younger, whereas \"me vs. past/future me\" comparisons lead to feeling relatively older. Study 2 also reveals evidence for the mediating role of self-perceptions of aging in this relationship. We discuss how social and temporal comparisons influence subjective age in opposite ways, offering important insights into the cognitive and motivational processes underlying subjective aging. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48426,"journal":{"name":"Psychology and Aging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Emotional prosody perception in Mandarin: Effects of age, hearing, education, and cognition. 汉语情绪韵律感知：年龄、听力、教育和认知的影响。

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Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000909

Xinran Fan, Jing Zhang, Kejia Zhang, Jiayi Zhou, Jingjing Guan, Hongwei Ding

{"title":"Emotional prosody perception in Mandarin: Effects of age, hearing, education, and cognition.","authors":"Xinran Fan, Jing Zhang, Kejia Zhang, Jiayi Zhou, Jingjing Guan, Hongwei Ding","doi":"10.1037/pag0000909","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pag0000909","url":null,"abstract":"Accurately recognizing the emotional prosody of others is crucial for effective social interactions, yet this ability notably declines as individuals age, particularly in individuals with age-related hearing loss. To further understand how aging and hearing loss affect older adults' recognition patterns and to investigate potential contributors, the present study recruited 32 older adults with normal hearing, 26 older adults with age-related hearing loss, 30 younger adults with simulated hearing loss, and 30 younger adults with normal hearing to identify vocal emotions portrayed in semantically neutral Chinese words. Accuracy was analyzed using generalized linear mixed-effects models to assess the impact of aging and hearing loss. Multiple linear regression explored the contributions of age, low- and high-frequency hearing sensitivity, cognitive scores, and education level. The influence of Mandarin lexical tones on emotional prosody perception was also investigated. Results showed older adults with hearing loss had the lowest accuracy, followed by older adults with normal hearing. Younger adults with simulated hearing loss outperformed both older groups but lagged behind younger adults with normal hearing. Happiness and fear were particularly challenging emotions for individuals with hearing loss. Flat and rising tones enhanced happiness recognition, while falling tones improved sadness recognition. High-frequency hearing loss, cognitive scores, and years of education are significant contributors to older adults' performance. These findings reveal that older age and hearing loss are associated with reduced sensitivity to emotional prosody. Furthermore, the pattern of emotional prosody perception appears to differ across emotions and is related to individual differences in sensory, cognitive, and social factors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48426,"journal":{"name":"Psychology and Aging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Flexible parafoveal processing of character order is preserved in older readers. 在老年读者中保留了灵活的准中央凹处理字符顺序。

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Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000883

Min Chang, Kuo Zhang, Lisha Hao, Kevin B Paterson, Kayleigh L Warrington, Jingxin Wang

{"title":"Flexible parafoveal processing of character order is preserved in older readers.","authors":"Min Chang, Kuo Zhang, Lisha Hao, Kevin B Paterson, Kayleigh L Warrington, Jingxin Wang","doi":"10.1037/pag0000883","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pag0000883","url":null,"abstract":"Eye movement research in Chinese shows that young adults encode character order flexibly during parafoveal processing and that word predictability can influence this early processing stage. Whether these effects change in older age is unclear, although other research suggests older readers have reduced parafoveal processing capabilities. Using the boundary paradigm (Rayner, 1975), we compared eye movement data from 60 young adults (18-30 years) with new data from 36 older adults (65-75 years). Participants read sentences with two-character target words of high or low predictability. Before their gaze crossed an invisible boundary, target words were presented normally (valid preview) or with characters transposed or replaced by unrelated characters (invalid previews). Previews reverted to normal once their gaze crossed the boundary. Our results reveal a larger word predictability effect for the older readers, while transposed-character effects were similar across groups, suggesting this intriguing aspect of parafoveal processing is preserved in aging readers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48426,"journal":{"name":"Psychology and Aging","volume":" ","pages":"429-438"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Memory selectivity in younger and older adults: The role of conative factors in value-directed remembering. 年轻人和老年人的记忆选择性：价值导向记忆中条件因素的作用。

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Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000885

Ashley L Miller, Alan D Castel

{"title":"Memory selectivity in younger and older adults: The role of conative factors in value-directed remembering.","authors":"Ashley L Miller, Alan D Castel","doi":"10.1037/pag0000885","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pag0000885","url":null,"abstract":"Memory selectivity refers to our ability to flexibly prioritize and remember important information over less important information. In three studies, we investigated the roles of various conative factors (i.e., task-specific motivation, memory self-efficacy, and self-determined learning goals) as mechanisms that might support intact, if not superior, memory selectivity in older age. Specifically, all three studies assessed efficacy beliefs (in younger and older adults) before participants completed a standard value-directed remembering task. Measures of task-specific motivation (Studies 1-3) and self-determined learning goals (Studies 2-3) were also included. Results suggested that older adults were generally more selective and more motivated to perform well on the value-directed remembering task compared to younger adults, even though they were also less confident in their memory abilities and tried to remember fewer words on each list. Critically, though, heightened task-specific motivation was associated with a tendency to recall a greater proportion of the to-be-remembered material but was not consistently associated with selectivity. A weak negative correlation between motivation and selectivity was only found in Study 3. However, inefficacious beliefs and lower self-determined learning goals were reliably associated with superior memory selectivity. Path analyses further revealed that memory self-efficacy and self-determined learning goals accounted for older adults' tendency to selectively remember important information. Collectively, these results are consistent with the idea that awareness of current memory limitations encourages older adults to focus on less material, which helps older adults more efficiently allocate attention to important information. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48426,"journal":{"name":"Psychology and Aging","volume":" ","pages":"371-390"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12167604/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144035198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Limited learning and adaptation in disfluency processing among older adults. 老年人在处理不流畅语言时的学习和适应能力有限。

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Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000887

Diyu Luo, Kristi Hendrickson, Si On Yoon

{"title":"Limited learning and adaptation in disfluency processing among older adults.","authors":"Diyu Luo, Kristi Hendrickson, Si On Yoon","doi":"10.1037/pag0000887","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pag0000887","url":null,"abstract":"Listeners adapt to diverse cues in real-time language processing. While younger adults can learn and adapt in complex multitalker settings, it remains uncertain whether this ability persists in older adults, especially when they must accumulate auditory inputs to learn novel statistics. We examined whether older adults adapt to talker-specific patterns using paralinguistic cues such as disfluency. In two experiments, older adults listened to instructions from two talkers: one used disfluency predictively (e.g., always referring to novel objects following disfluency) and the other used disfluency unpredictably (e.g., referring to either familiar or novel objects following disfluency). Experiment 1 examined a single-talker setting (N = 50, between-subjects), and Experiment 2 examined a multitalker setting (N = 50, within-subjects). Participants' eye movements were compared between the predictive and nonpredictive conditions. In Experiment 1, older adults demonstrated partner-specific adaptation by looking at novel images more in the predictive condition than in the nonpredictive condition. However, this partner-specific adaptation was not observed in Experiment 2. The results suggest that while older adults can adapt to simpler single-talker settings, their ability to learn and apply novel statistics specific to each talker diminishes in more complex multitalker settings. This limitation may stem from slower processing speed and decreased cognitive flexibility, which may lead older adults to rely on global statistics rather than partner-specific ones. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48426,"journal":{"name":"Psychology and Aging","volume":" ","pages":"439-447"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12088891/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143671454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Contribution of metamemory beliefs to age-related differences in the effect of emotion on judgments of learning. 元记忆信念对情绪对学习判断影响的年龄相关差异的贡献。

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Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000884

Yue Yin, Shaohang Liu, Wenbo Zhao, Zhilv Ye, Jun Zheng, Dahua Wang, Xiao Hu, Zhaomin Liu, Chunliang Yang, Liang Luo

{"title":"Contribution of metamemory beliefs to age-related differences in the effect of emotion on judgments of learning.","authors":"Yue Yin, Shaohang Liu, Wenbo Zhao, Zhilv Ye, Jun Zheng, Dahua Wang, Xiao Hu, Zhaomin Liu, Chunliang Yang, Liang Luo","doi":"10.1037/pag0000884","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pag0000884","url":null,"abstract":"With the global aging of the population, the importance of understanding the characteristics and mechanisms of developmental changes in later life has grown. The present study explored age-related differences in the effect of emotion on judgments of learning (JOLs) in Chinese participants and delved deeper into the mechanisms underlying this effect. Experiment 1 observed that older participants showed a positivity effect on JOLs, whereas young participants demonstrated an emotional salience effect on JOLs, reflecting age-related differences in the effect of emotion on JOLs. To investigate the mechanisms underlying these age-related differences, Experiment 2 measured participants' metamemory beliefs about the effect of emotion on memory and found that older participants held a belief of the positivity effect, whereas young participants possessed a belief of the emotional salience effect. Experiment 3 collected data of beliefs and JOLs from the same participants and provided further evidence highlighting the contribution of metamemory beliefs to age-related differences in the effect of emotion on JOLs. These findings are essential for advancing the theoretical framework of metamemory and for extending lifespan theory of socioemotional selectivity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48426,"journal":{"name":"Psychology and Aging","volume":" ","pages":"342-354"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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To let go for now or for good? Goal shelving and goal disengagement across adulthood. 是暂时放手，还是永远放手？成年期的目标搁置和目标脱离。

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Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000892

Zita Mayer, Alexandra M Freund

{"title":"To let go for now or for good? Goal shelving and goal disengagement across adulthood.","authors":"Zita Mayer, Alexandra M Freund","doi":"10.1037/pag0000892","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pag0000892","url":null,"abstract":"People shape their development through selecting, maintaining, and ending personal goal pursuits. To manage multiple goals in a reality of limited resources, people may opt to temporarily shelve some goals with the intention to reengage (goal shelving) or to permanently give up on some goals for good (goal disengagement). Do preferences for goal shelving and disengagement change across adulthood? This cross-sectional study provides first evidence on age-related similarities and differences in the prevalence and antecedents of goal shelving and disengagement, and in characteristics of shelved and abandoned goals. The sample (N = 973) comprised 317 young (18-25 years), 327 middle-aged (36-64), and 329 older (65+) adults and was stratified by gender (50% women). Contrary to our expectation, there was no evidence for age-related differences in the number of shelved and abandoned goals, and little evidence for age-related differences in antecedents of shelving and disengagement or characteristics of shelved and abandoned goals. Young, middle-aged, and older adults most often shelved and abandoned leisure goals oriented toward gains, and most often shelved and abandoned goals to prioritize different goals and to manage resource-related restrictions, with health-related restrictions growing more relevant with age. Across all age groups, shelved goals had greater motivational value and salience than abandoned goals. Goal value, goal salience, and expected future goal-related opportunities predicted how sure people felt about readopting shelved goals and how sure they felt about not readopting abandoned goals, respectively. Implications are discussed in light of lifespan developmental theory. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48426,"journal":{"name":"Psychology and Aging","volume":" ","pages":"391-412"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144019579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Can goal reminders reduce the Stroop effect in older adults? 目标提醒能减少老年人的Stroop效应吗？

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Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000882

Matthew S Welhaf, Madeline R Valdez, Brooke Charbonneau, Audrey V B Hood, Keith A Hutchison, Julie M Bugg

{"title":"Can goal reminders reduce the Stroop effect in older adults?","authors":"Matthew S Welhaf, Madeline R Valdez, Brooke Charbonneau, Audrey V B Hood, Keith A Hutchison, Julie M Bugg","doi":"10.1037/pag0000882","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pag0000882","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has demonstrated robust age-related differences in the Stroop effect. Such differences are often attributed to deficits in cognitive control processes, such as goal maintenance ability. Previous research in younger adults has reliably demonstrated that the magnitude of the Stroop effect, particularly for those lower in working memory capacity, can be reduced by providing periodic goal reminders. The present study tested if this benefit of goal reminders extends to another group with reduced goal maintenance ability, older adults. Younger (N = 80) and older (N = 78) adults completed a vocal color-word Stroop task in which most trials were congruent, a condition which induces goal neglect and exacerbates Stroop effects. Critically, half of the participants in each age group were stopped every 24 trials to vocalize either a goal-reminder statement (\"The goal is to name the color, not the word\") or a nongoal statement (\"This is part of my psychology study\"). The key finding was that the goal reminders benefitted older adults as evidenced by a reduced Stroop effect in reaction time for the goal condition compared with the nongoal condition. This pattern was not observed for younger adults. Error rate analyses suggested that the benefits of goal reminders were short-lived, with errors primarily reduced in the first half of the run (e.g., 12 trials) following goal reminders. We suggest that goal reminders can be a useful intervention to momentarily improve cognitive control in older adults. We discuss the implications of this finding for theories of cognitive control that implicate reductions in goal maintenance at the center of age-related cognitive decline. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48426,"journal":{"name":"Psychology and Aging","volume":" ","pages":"421-428"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12088903/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Trouble in paradise? Emotional and social loneliness among international retirement migrants. 天堂里有麻烦吗？国际退休移民的情感和社会孤独。

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Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000880

Esma Betül Savaş, Kène Henkens, Matthijs Kalmijn

{"title":"Trouble in paradise? Emotional and social loneliness among international retirement migrants.","authors":"Esma Betül Savaş, Kène Henkens, Matthijs Kalmijn","doi":"10.1037/pag0000880","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pag0000880","url":null,"abstract":"People who migrate at a later age are vulnerable to loneliness: They are challenged to maintain social ties in the origin country while establishing new ties in the destination. In the present study, we investigate (a) the differences in loneliness levels between retirement migrants and older adults who reside in their country of origin (nonmigrants) and (b) the determinants of emotional and social loneliness among retirement migrants. We employ the survey of Dutch retirement migrants abroad (DRM, 2021: Henkens et al., 2022), including 4,995 Dutch retirement migrants residing in 40 destination countries and 1,338 nonmigrants residing in the Netherlands (aged 66-90). Our results showed that retirement migrants were socially lonelier than nonmigrants; however, they were not emotionally lonelier. Among retirement migrants, those who had lost contact with good friends in the country of origin were both emotionally and socially lonelier. Retirement migrants who had more neighbor contact and a higher sense of belonging to the destination were emotionally and socially less lonely. Furthermore, those who had lost contact with their children and had a higher sense of belonging to the Netherlands were emotionally lonelier. The present study presents new insights into the interplay between aging and migration by using a unique representative survey of individuals who migrated at a later age to a new country and points to the risks of the increasingly popular phenomenon of international retirement migration. Differences in levels and predictors of emotional and social loneliness highlight the importance of studying these dimensions separately. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48426,"journal":{"name":"Psychology and Aging","volume":" ","pages":"327-341"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Testing the purported mechanisms of the AgingPLUS intervention: Effects on physical activity outcomes. 测试AgingPLUS干预的机制：对身体活动结果的影响。

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Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000893

Manfred Diehl, Han-Yun Tseng, George W Rebok, Kaigang Li, Abigail M Nehrkorn-Bailey, Diana Rodriguez, Diefei Chen, David L Roth

{"title":"Testing the purported mechanisms of the AgingPLUS intervention: Effects on physical activity outcomes.","authors":"Manfred Diehl, Han-Yun Tseng, George W Rebok, Kaigang Li, Abigail M Nehrkorn-Bailey, Diana Rodriguez, Diefei Chen, David L Roth","doi":"10.1037/pag0000893","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pag0000893","url":null,"abstract":"Following the experimental medicine approach, Diehl et al. (2023) demonstrated the malleability of negative views of aging (NVOA), self-efficacy beliefs, and exercise intention in middle-aged and older adults who participated in the AgingPLUS intervention program. The present study built on those findings and addressed (a) whether the intervention resulted in significant improvements in physical activity (PA) and (b) whether the purported mechanistic variables were significant mediators of the intervention's effects on PA outcomes. AgingPLUS used a randomized, single-blind control group design to implement the intervention in a sample of 335 adults aged 45-75 years. This study reports findings from 278 participants (Mage = 60.1 years; SD = 8.3 years) for whom PA measures were available at baseline and the delayed posttest at Week 8. Compared to participants in the Health Education control group and compared to baseline, participants in the AgingPLUS program showed significant improvements in accelerometer-assessed PA (e.g., total daily steps walked; total daily minutes of moderate-to-vigorous PA [MVPA]) and self-reported PA (e.g., weekly kcals burned in MVPA; increase in weekly total minutes of MVPA). Findings from bias-corrected bootstrap mediation analyses yielded partial support for the purported mechanisms of the intervention. Specifically, improvements in NVOA mediated the effects of the intervention on several accelerometer-assessed PA outcomes. Furthermore, improvements in NVOA, general, motivational, and volitional self-efficacy beliefs were significant mediators on several self-reported PA outcomes. Overall, findings provided support for small but significant effects of AgingPLUS on PA outcomes and supportive evidence for several of the theoretical mechanisms tested. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48426,"journal":{"name":"Psychology and Aging","volume":" ","pages":"355-370"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12088897/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144022764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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