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The ubiquitous pattern is that the older people are, the less closely their subjectiveage identity matches their chronological age. The proportion of people whosay they feel younger than their chronological age increased from 54% when theywere in their forties, for example, to 86% when in their eighties (Goldsmith &Heiens 1992). Similarly, as people grow older, their definition of when old agebegins becomes older and older (Logan et al 1992). Older adults even engage ingreater stereotyping of all age groups than do younger people (Rothbaum 1983).One might conclude that greater self-esteem is associated with feeling younger;data suggest that life satisfaction is lower and stress is higher for those who seethemselves as old (Logan et al 1992), but congruency between subjective and actualage leads to greater life satisfaction for older women (
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