What Determines That Older Adults Feel Younger Than They Are? Results From a Nationally Representative Study in Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is increasing evidence that subjective age is an important predictor of beneficial health outcomes besides chronological age. However, little is known about the factors associated with younger subjective age. This study aimed to identify which factors are predictive of feeling younger in old age. In this context, feeling younger was defined as an individual's perception of being younger than their current chronological age.

Methods

Data from 4,665 community-dwelling older people were drawn from wave 7 (2020) of the German Aging Survey (DEAS), a nationally representative study in Germany. Network, mediation, and binomial logistic regression analyses were performed to reveal the associations between feeling younger and biopsychosocial factors.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Heimrich KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9274253 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature