@article{ref1,
title="Age identification in the framework of successful aging: a study of older Finnish people",
journal="International journal of aging and human development",
year="2003",
author="Uotinen, Virpi and Suutama, Timo and Ruoppila, Isto",
volume="56",
number="3",
pages="173-195",
abstract="A person-oriented approach was used in a study of age identification among community-dwelling older people. The study was based on 8-year follow-up data; 843 persons aged 65-84 were involved in the first phase of the study, and 426 persons aged 73-92, in the second phase. Loosely, on the basis of the distinction between successful, usual, and pathological aging (Rowe & Kahn, 1987, 1997), participants were grouped according to their self-ratings of cognitive and physical functioning as &quot;Positive,&quot; &quot;Negative,&quot; and &quot;Others.&quot; Participants possessing at least 4 out of the 5 criteria used as indicators of successful aging in the study (no illness or injury presenting problems in daily life, no health problems imposing limitations on hobbies, self-rated cognitive functioning better than satisfactory, age-comparative functional capacity as good, and no signs of depression) were assigned to the &quot;Positive&quot; group. The results showed these individuals typically to have a more youthful age identity, indicated by a lower feel age and thus a lower subjective age-perception score, lower mental, physical, and look ages, and a less frequently reported sense of age weighing on them. Moreover, this group reported a higher ideal age and had a chronological age satisfaction score closer to 0, suggesting higher satisfaction with chronological age. Also a tendency to set the onset of old age later and a willingness to live to 100 years of age were features that were more characteristic of the &quot;Positive&quot; than the other groups. The findings, supported by multivariate analyses, were in line with those of previous variable-oriented studies on age identification, suggesting that an association exists between perceptions of personal aging and physical and psychological well-being.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-4150",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}