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| Self-perception and perception of age groups as a function of the perceiver's category membership | | Author(s) | Irek Celejewski, Karen K Dion |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 47, no 3, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 205-216 |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Age groups [elderly] ; Adults ; Middle aged ; Canada. |
| Annotation | This research examined self-perception and the perception of age groups by young and older people from the perspective of social identity theory and social categorisation theory. Respondents rated either themselves or unfamiliar stimulus persons from three age categories in adulthood: young, middle-aged, and elderly. As expected, an in-group bias was found in the evaluation of older adults. Specifically, compared to ratings made by younger adults, older adults evaluated older persons more favourably. Moreover, as predicted, older adults' self-evaluations and those of young adults asked to imagine themselves as elderly were more positive than the ratings made by respondents who evaluated an unfamiliar older adult. Both cognitive and motivational processes were discussed as contributing to the phenomenon of self-other discrepancy in beliefs about and attitudes toward older adults. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990121403 A |
| Classmark | B:TOB: BB: SD: SE: 7S |
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