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Feeling empowered in later life could make you feel younger
http://www.physorg.com/news201764586.html
August 23, 2010
(PhysOrg.com) -- People may feel younger if they feel empowered to
make changes that will impact their lives, according to a new study
conducted at Penn State. The study looked at "subjective age" -- how
old a person feels in comparison to their chronological age, which
plays an important role in health and well-being.
"Recent research has shown that subjective age is related to mortality
and longevity -- individuals who feel younger than their chronological
age are more likely to live longer and die later than those who feel
as old or older than their chronological age," said Frank Infurna,
doctoral candidate in the Department of Human Development and Family
Studies.
In conducting the study, Infurna and his colleagues sought to better
understand what factors can lead to people feeling older than their
chronological age. Other research has examined this phenomenon in
middle age and older adults, but Infurna's research is one of the
first to look at adults age 80 and older.
The researchers looked at data from the OCTO study, a sample of people
age 84 and older living in Jonkoping, Sweden. After statistical
analysis of 267 participants, Infurna found that mastery beliefs --
"beliefs that your actions can influence outcomes in your life," he
explained -- were strongly associated with feeling a younger
subjective age.
Infurna's research also showed that, despite their chronological age,
most participants (64 percent) reported not feeling old. This has been
shown in other studies, too, in countries such as Finland, Germany and
the United States. Infurna believes this is an indication that,
throughout their lives, people have the capacity to feel younger, and
old age is no exception.
Mastery beliefs may allow individuals to adjust to and downgrade the
impact of possible age-related losses in cognitive, physical, or
social domains -- wrote the authors in their findings -- which appear
in Psychology and Aging.
By researching different factors that can lead to undesirable outcomes
such as early death, researchers are improving the chances that people
can continue to develop healthily in old age.
Infurna noted that the effect of feeling younger may differ across
nations, and future work in different geographic regions is needed.
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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