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Aging & Work

Perceptions of aging and work are studied with respect to treatment of older workers and the attitudes and behaviors of older workers.

  • Current studies
    • development of a measure of workplace age stereotypes
    • contributions of on-the-job and off-the-job stressors to perceptions of personal age
    • the role of perceived control as a mediator of relationships between satisfaction in personal life, work, and health, and expected retirement timing
    • different perspectives: age differences in predictors of expected retirement timing
    • age differences in use and benefits of downtime activities as a stress recovery mechanism
    • non-linear relationships of age with work attitudes
    • psychological indices of age

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