Pension Tension: Retirement Annuity Fosters Ageism Across Countries and Cultures.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Globally aging populations raise worldwide concerns about how an older population will be valued. Cross-culturally, many espouse that Eastern cultures revere their older adults more than Westerners, due to stronger collectivism and filial piety traditions. In contrast, this paper proposes a resource tension hypothesis, whereby rapid population aging causes pragmatic strain across all modernized societies, fostering ageism.

Research design and methods

Three studies supported this resource tension hypothesis, focusing on the pragmatic role of public pensions-a fundamental resource inherently pitting older versus younger generations-in fostering ageism. Study 1 tested the relationship between nation-level public pension rate and attitudes toward older

SUBMITTER: Chen Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10506169 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature