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Neri AL, Wahl HW, Kaspar R, Diehl M, Batistoni SST, Cachioni M, Yassuda MS. Psychometric study of the Awareness of Age-Related Change (AARC) Short Scale translated to Portuguese, applied to Brazilian older adults. Dement Neuropsychol 2021; 15:230-238. [PMID: 34345365 PMCID: PMC8283873 DOI: 10.1590/1980-57642021dn15-020011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The concept Awareness of Age-Related Change (AARC) is defined as a person’s awareness that their behavior, level of physical, cognitive and social performance, and ways of experiencing life have changed as a consequence of having grown older, and not because of disease.
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- Anita Liberalesso Neri
- Graduate Program of Gerontology, School of Medical Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University - Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics and Social Sciences of Health, University of Cologne - Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University - Fort Collins, USA
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- Graduate Program of Gerontology, School of Medical Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Campinas, SP, Brazil.,School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Graduate Program of Gerontology, School of Medical Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Campinas, SP, Brazil.,School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Graduate Program of Gerontology, School of Medical Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Campinas, SP, Brazil.,School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Liang K. Differential associations between subjective age and depressive symptoms among urban and rural Chinese older adults. Aging Ment Health 2020; 24:1271-1277. [PMID: 31512494 DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2019.1663489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Objectives: Little research has investigated the prospective association between subjective-aging-perception and depressive symptoms in Chinese older adults. The aim of this study is to evaluate the differential associations of feeling old with depressive symptoms among urban and rural community-dwelling Chinese older adults using panel data drawn from two waves of nationally representative surveys.Method: We conducted secondary data analysis and utilized the data of 5,685 urban and 5,612 rural community-dwelling older adults aged 60 years and above who participated in both the 2006 and the 2010 Sample Survey on the Aged Population in Urban/Rural China (SSAPUR). A single-item measure of subjective age was used to distinguish between feeling old and feeling not old.Results: Ordinary least regression analyses indicated that the longitudinal effect of subjective age on depressive symptoms existed only in the urban sample (p<.001) but not in the rural sample and that feeling not old was related to less depressive symptoms in the urban sample, after controlling for baseline measures of depressive symptoms and sociodemographic and health factors.Conclusion: This study provides new longitudinal evidence of the impact of subjective age on depression among Chinese older individuals. The findings provide useful information for depression interventions among urban older Chinese individuals.
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- Kun Liang
- Department of Social Work, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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