Age Stereotypes and Self-Views Revisited: Patterns of Internalization and Projection Processes Across the Life Span

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 582-592

  Kornadt, Anna E ^a   Voss, Peggy ^b   Rothermund, Klaus ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age stereotypes; Developmental tasks; Internalization; Life domains; Life span; Projection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; LIFE HISTORY TRAITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 85021794496     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbv099     Document Type: Article

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