title: Resiliency Over Time of Elders' Age Stereotypes After Encountering Stressful Events.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine whether the age stereotypes of older individuals would become more negative or else show resiliency following stressful events and to examine whether age-stereotype negativity would increase the likelihood of experiencing a stressful event (i.e., hospitalization).
  
  
  METHODS
  Age stereotypes of 231 participants, 70 years and older, were assessed across 10 years, before and after the occurrence of hospitalizations and bereavements.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Age-stereotype negativity was resilient despite encountering stressful events. In contrast, more negative age stereotypes were associated with a 50% greater likelihood of experiencing a hospitalization.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The robustness of negative age stereotypes was expressed in their capacity to resist change as well as generate it.
authors.affiliation: Social and Behavioral Sciences Division, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut. Becca.Levy@yale.edu.
authors.forename: Becca R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Martin D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Slade
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Demography, University of California at Berkeley.
authors.forename: Pil H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Thomas M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Gill
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D013240:Stereotyping; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Aging; Bereavement; Hospitalization; Longitudinal; Resiliency; Stereotypes; Stress