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Taking a closer look at ageism: self- and other-directed ageist attitudes and discrimination

2017; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s10433-016-0409-9

ISSN

1613-9380

Autores

Liat Ayalon, Clemens Tesch‐Römer,

Tópico(s)

Health disparities and outcomes

Resumo

Ageism at the individual levelInternalized age stereotypes contribute considerably to ageism both towards oneself and towards others (i.e., selfvs.other-oriented ageism).Young people internalize the predominantly negative societal views of older people, which shape their self-perceptions of ageing as they grow older (Kotter-Gru ¨hn and Hess 2012;Levy, 2003;Rothermund and Brandtsta ¨dter 2003).Indeed, research has shown that children as young as fourth grade already hold

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