Cognitive age: demographic and psychographic dimensions.
This empirical study, based on a random self-report mail survey, explored perceptions of age among mature Americans aged 60+. Respondents were members of a systematic probability sample located in the Mid Atlantic region. Two inner-age dimensions were considered: the first, Cognitive Age, is a measure of self-perceived age and assesses a person's "actual" age-role self-concept; the second, entitled Youthfulness, is a new measure of youth scored by what percentage a respondent's Age-of-Birth is greater than his or her Cognitive Age (Chronological Age/Cognitive Age). The study first explored the relationships between the age variables, and then, through Multivariate Analyses of Variance (MANOVAs), the associations between four trait-sets (demographics, health, Quality of Life, and psychographic traits) and the two inner-age dimensions.
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D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003071:Cognition; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012647:Self-Assessment; D014481:United States