Empathy mitigates the relationship between ageism and subjective age in late life.

This study corresponds with a dispute in gerontology literature about whether a younger subjective age acts as a psychological defense for older adults by perceiving themselves as younger in order to dissociate from their age-group or as a marker of good physical health. This cross-sectional study presents a preliminary step to clarify this dispute. We examined the role of emotional empathy (measured by the Multifaceted Empathy Test) as a moderator in the ageism (measured implicitly by the Brief Implicit Association Test) and subjective age (measured on Likert scale) association on a convenience sample of 203 community-dwelling older adults (aged 65-90, M = 74.

The Skill of Positive Solitude Moderates the Relationship between 24 Character Strengths and Flourishing in the Second Half of Life.

Objectives: Aging may challenge life and even affect individuals' wellbeing and flourishing. This includes the challenges of diminished social connections and the experience of solitude in later life while seeking to leverage personal strengths. The current study examines two important personal resources, i.

Psychological Well-Being and Self-Aging Attitudes Moderate the Association between Subjective Age and Age Discrimination in the Workplace.

Views of aging include peoples' assessment of their own aging process and their subjective age. Positive views of aging relate to a improved psychological well-being which predicts better physical and mental health. While these relationships were substantially studied, the moderating roles of self-aging attitudes and psychological well-being in the subjective age-age discrimination connection have been much less explored.

Intergenerational Synchrony and Its Effect on Bonding and Group Closeness among Young and Older Adults.

To examine the effect of synchronous dance movements on social bonding and perceived closeness between generations, 168 young (20-45 years) and older (65-90 years) participants were randomly assigned to six dyad conditions. These included dancing synchronously or asynchronously with an in-age-group or out-age-group unfamiliar partner for 11 min. The participants then completed social bonding and group closeness questionnaires.

An Intergenerational Telehealth Music Therapy Group Intervention to Improve Grandparents' Meaning in life.

The lockdown policies in Israel during the COVID-19 pandemic hampered familial grandparents-grandchildren relations. There is initial evidence that older adults' meaning in life and will-to-live decreased. Grandparents could no longer meet their grandchildren in person.

Dust in the Wind: Ageism as Portrayed in Attitudes Toward Songs in Adulthood and Old Age.

Ageism was found to be prevalent across various life domains, but not in the music domain. This study aimed to examine whether negative ageist attitudes toward older adults are associated with music preferences across life. Subjects ( = 214, age range 30-92, = 56.

Daily fluctuations in subjective age and depressive symptoms: the roles of attitudes to ageing and chronological age.

Studies indicate that both subjective age-individuals' perception of their own age as older or younger than their chronological age, and attitudes to ageing are related to physical and mental health. Less is known about the possible dual effect of these two constructs of subjective views of ageing. In the current study, 334 participants (aged 30-90,  = 58.

Sense of Relationship Entitlement of Aging Parents Toward Their Offspring (SRE-ao)-A New Concept and Measurement Tool.

Our sense of entitlement influences our interactions and attitudes in a range of specific relational contexts, one of them being aging parents' relationships with their adult children. This study aimed to examine the factor structure of the Sense of Relational Entitlement-aging parents toward their offspring (SRE-ao), an 11-item questionnaire that assesses aging people's sense of relational entitlement toward their children, and examine the associations of its subscales with related personality and mental health constructs. One thousand and six participants (24.

The moderating effect of care-burden on formal caregiver's mental health during COVID-19.

Background: Homecare organisations employ professionals (i.e. gerontologists, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and social workers) to help their clients gain rights and supervise non-professional formal caregivers.

Feeling Younger, Rehabilitating Better: Reciprocal and Mediating Effects between Subjective Age and Functional Independence in Osteoporotic Fracture and Stroke Patients.

Introduction: The current study aimed to find reciprocal effects between subjective age and functional independence during rehabilitation from osteoporotic fractures and stroke and whether these effects can be mediated by indicators of well-being.

Methods: Participants were 194 older adults (mean age = 78.32 years, SD = 7.

The Association Between Views of Aging and Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Older Adults: Findings From Two Samples.

This cross-sectional study examined whether views of aging (VoA) relate to subjective cognitive complaints in two separate cohorts of older adults. Ageist attitudes, attitudes to aging (psychological loss, physical change, and psychological growth), subjective age, and subjective successful aging were examined. A moderating effect of chronological age was also examined.

Attitudes to aging mediate the reciprocal effects of health anxiety and physical functioning.

Objective: To understand if attitudes to aging mediate the reciprocal effects of health anxiety and physical functioning among older adults with medical conditions. We examined: (1) if these effects are reciprocal; (2) if attitudes to aging (psychological loss, psychological growth, physical change) play a mediating role in these effects.

Design: A sample of 226 community-dwelling older adults (T1 age range = 65-94, mean age = 73.

Vaccination anxiety when vaccinations are available: The role of existential concerns.

This study examined how existential fears are related to COVID-19 vaccination anxiety and followed the Terror Management Theory (TMT) by examining the contribution of two existential concerns, subjective nearness-to-death (SNtD) and death anxiety, to COVID-19 vaccination anxiety during the first month of COVID-19 vaccinations. Data were collected during January 2021, when Israel was in lockdown, from a convenience sample of 381 Jewish Israelis (M = 55.39, SD = 17.

Ageist Attitudes Are Associated with Will-to-Live and Moderated by Age, Medical Conditions and Attitudes toward Aging.

The extent to which older adults' ageist attitudes associate with their will-to-live has barely been studied. Moreover, whether this effect is moderated by older adults' age, medical conditions, and attitudes toward their own aging has not been investigated. These associations were examined by two studies.

Subjective accelerated aging moderates the association between COVID-19 health worries and peritraumatic distress among older adults.

Background: The present study examined whether subjective accelerated aging moderated the relationship between COVID-19 health worries and COVID-19 peritraumatic distress among older adults.

Method: The sample consisted of 277 older adults (M = 69.58, s.

No psychological vaccination: Vaccine hesitancy is associated with negative psychiatric outcomes among Israelis who received COVID-19 vaccination.

Background: The widespread COVID-19 vaccination program, issued by the Israel Government, provides a unique opportunity to examine psychiatric morbidity and vaccine attitudes among individuals who have already been vaccinated. Accordingly, the current study examined how vaccine hesitancy contributes to clinical levels of depression, anxiety, and peritraumatic stress among individuals who had received COVID-19 vaccinations.

Methods: We analyzed data obtained from 254 vaccinated individuals, and assessed vaccine hesitancy, depression, anxiety, and peritraumatic distress, as well as several demographic, health, and COVID-19-related factors.

The role of emotion covariation and psychological flexibility in coping with chronic physical pain: an integrative model.

Objective: This study focussed on the mutual role of emotion covariation and psychological flexibility in understanding the reciprocal effects of chronic pain and psychological distress.

Design: A longitudinal design was applied with a sample of 177 adults (mean age = 58.3, 57.

Day-to-Day Variability in Subjective Age and Ageist Attitudes and Their Association With Depressive Symptoms.

Objectives: Evidence of daily fluctuations in subjective age and their association with older adults' well-being was recently obtained. Yet, neither the simultaneous tracking of two daily views on aging (i.e.

The loneliness pandemic: Loneliness and other concomitants of depression, anxiety and their comorbidity during the COVID-19 outbreak.

• Loneliness was the main risk factor for depression, anxiety and their comorbidity. • Probable clinical level of depression and anxiety was not predicted by risk for COVID-19 complications. • adults above 60, displayed greater resilience to psychiatric disorders associated with the COVID-19 crisis.