ABSTRACT The relationship between subjective age identity and ideal age, as measured by the Subjective Age Identity Scale (Hubley, 2004), and personality domains and facets, as measured by the NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992), was investigated in a sample of 210 adults ages 19 to 78. Subjective age and ideal age scores were regressed, using multiple standard regressions, on the NEO-PI-R domains and facets, respectively. Results indicated that 22% of the variance in subjective age identity scores was explained by personality domains whereas 27% was explained by personality facets. Specifically, two personality domains (Openness to Experience and Neuroticism) and one personality facet (Aesthetics) made significant unique contributions to the explained variance in subjective age scores. Very little variance in ideal age scores was explained by personality domains and facets (less than 10%). One domain (Openness to Experience) and two facets (Vulnerability to Stress and Values) made significant unique contributions to the explained variance in the ideal age scores. These findings are examined in the context of the previous research on the relationship between personality and subjective age and the importance of conducting both domain and facet level analyses when using the NEO-PI-R is discussed. Implications of the present findings for counselling and clinical work with persons facing age role transitions or other age related concerns (e.g., negative attitudes towards aging) are highlighted.

ABSTRACT The relationship between subjective age identity and ideal age, as measured by the Subjective Age Identity Scale (Hubley, 2004), and personality domains and facets, as measured by the NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992), was investigated in a sample of 210 adults ages 19 to 78. Subjective age and ideal age scores were regressed, using multiple standard regressions, on the NEO-PI-R domains and facets, respectively. Results indicated that 22% of the variance in subjective age identity scores was explained by personality domains whereas 27% was explained by personality facets. Specifically, two personality domains (Openness to Experience and Neuroticism) and one personality facet (Aesthetics) made significant unique contributions to the explained variance in subjective age scores. Very little variance in ideal age scores was explained by personality domains and facets (less than 10%). One domain (Openness to Experience) and two facets (Vulnerability to Stress and Values) made significant unique contributions to the explained variance in the ideal age scores. These findings are examined in the context of the previous research on the relationship between personality and subjective age and the importance of conducting both domain and facet level analyses when using the NEO-PI-R is discussed. Implications of the present findings for counselling and clinical work with persons facing age role transitions or other age related concerns (e.g., negative attitudes towards aging) are highlighted.

ABSTRACT The relationship between subjective age identity and ideal age, as measured by the Subjective Age Identity Scale (Hubley, 2004), and personality domains and facets, as measured by the NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992), was investigated in a sample of 210 adults ages 19 to 78. Subjective age and ideal age scores were regressed, using multiple standard regressions, on the NEO-PI-R domains and facets, respectively. Results indicated that 22% of the variance in subjective age identity scores was explained by personality domains whereas 27% was explained by personality facets. Specifically, two personality domains (Openness to Experience and Neuroticism) and one personality facet (Aesthetics) made significant unique contributions to the explained variance in subjective age scores. Very little variance in ideal age scores was explained by personality domains and facets (less than 10%). One domain (Openness to Experience) and two facets (Vulnerability to Stress and Values) made significant unique contributions to the explained variance in the ideal age scores. These findings are examined in the context of the previous research on the relationship between personality and subjective age and the importance of conducting both domain and facet level analyses when using the NEO-PI-R is discussed. Implications of the present findings for counselling and clinical work with persons facing age role transitions or other age related concerns (e.g., negative attitudes towards aging) are highlighted. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate

This dissertation begins from the classic anthropological observation that how we age is culturally specific, and examines how Ecuador’s “educational revolution” has changed what aging looks like in that country. As Quito's public schools underwent rapid and wide-ranging transformations from 2009-2017, its students and their families also adjusted to new ""youth"" rights and responsibilities. Ethnographic fieldwork on how high school students and their families negotiated these changes in school and at home was analyzed through a life course lens encompassing phenomenological and governmental approaches to time and identity. Here, age identities are shown to emerge from the efforts of formal schooling to define what it means to be a good citizen across the life course. The result is an ethnographic study of a particularly modern relationship between time and youth identity that joins intersectional work on gender, race, and class in considering how categories of social differentiation govern populations. This dissertation theorizes the “age horizon” to analyze age identities through informants’ encounters with a wide variety of temporal guideposts, which subjects use to locate their own identities. It develops the concept of the “citizen life cycle” as the normative life course trajectory that emerges from understanding age as a technology of citizenship. It also contextualizes the citizen life cycle as a single “path” towards national belonging within a much wider and more variable “age horizon.” The concept of the citizen life cycle emphasizes how “youth becoming” gets constructed as a “life stage” within a larger normative “life cycle.” I pay particular attention to the effects of policies, infrastructures, and practices that my informants encounter in their daily attendance in high school.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este estudo trata do surgimento de inovações no que se refere ao campo das identidades pessoais atreladas ao processo de envelhecimento. Identificamos, na contemporaneidade, o surgimento de condutas, imagens, hábitos e crenças que alteram significativamente as concepções tradicionalmente associadas ao envelhecimento. Adotamos como hipótese o entendimento da terceira idade - termo que vem sendo utilizado para identificar esta inovação - como uma nova identidade etária que vem se somar à infância, adolescência, idade adulta e velhice na composição do curso de vida contemporâneo. A compreensão desta nova identidade etária inclui a delimitação de seu percurso histórico, a sua diferenciação em relação à identidades pessoais vigente na contemporaneidade e a delimitação de suas características específicas. A partir dos indícios oferecidos pelo caso específico da terceira idade, refletimos acerca das tendências de indefinição e fragmentação que, paradoxalmente, atingem o curso de vida contemporâneo e provocam a redefinição e a reorganização das diferentes idades. / This study deals with the appearance of innovations in the field of personal identities related to the aging process. We identify, in the contemporary world, the appearance of behaviors, images, habits and beliefs that modify the conceptions traditionally associated to the aging process. We adopt as hypothesis the consideration of the third age - the term that has being used to identify this innovation - as a new age identity that adds itself to infance, adolescence, adult age and oldness in the composition of the contemporary life course. The understanding of this new age identity comprises the delimitation of its historical path, its differatiation from the identity of the oldness, the analisys of its connections to the context of personal identities construction in force in the contemporary world and the delimitation of its specific characteristics. From the indications offered by the specific case of the third age. We reflect concerning the trends of undefinition and fragmentation that, paradoxically, reach the contemporary life course and provoke a redefinition and a reorganization of the different ages.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este estudo trata do surgimento de inovações no que se refere ao campo das identidades pessoais atreladas ao processo de envelhecimento. Identificamos, na contemporaneidade, o surgimento de condutas, imagens, hábitos e crenças que alteram significativamente as concepções tradicionalmente associadas ao envelhecimento. Adotamos como hipótese o entendimento da terceira idade - termo que vem sendo utilizado para identificar esta inovação - como uma nova identidade etária que vem se somar à infância, adolescência, idade adulta e velhice na composição do curso de vida contemporâneo. A compreensão desta nova identidade etária inclui a delimitação de seu percurso histórico, a sua diferenciação em relação à identidades pessoais vigente na contemporaneidade e a delimitação de suas características específicas. A partir dos indícios oferecidos pelo caso específico da terceira idade, refletimos acerca das tendências de indefinição e fragmentação que, paradoxalmente, atingem o curso de vida contemporâneo e provocam a redefinição e a reorganização das diferentes idades. / This study deals with the appearance of innovations in the field of personal identities related to the aging process. We identify, in the contemporary world, the appearance of behaviors, images, habits and beliefs that modify the conceptions traditionally associated to the aging process. We adopt as hypothesis the consideration of the third age - the term that has being used to identify this innovation - as a new age identity that adds itself to infance, adolescence, adult age and oldness in the composition of the contemporary life course. The understanding of this new age identity comprises the delimitation of its historical path, its differatiation from the identity of the oldness, the analisys of its connections to the context of personal identities construction in force in the contemporary world and the delimitation of its specific characteristics. From the indications offered by the specific case of the third age. We reflect concerning the trends of undefinition and fragmentation that, paradoxically, reach the contemporary life course and provoke a redefinition and a reorganization of the different ages.

This paper focuses on ageism between extreme age groups of the adult population in the Czech Republic in an international comparison. It builds on the findings regarding the extent of the problem of ageism and the increasing importance of age as a social characteristic in modern societies. The objective is to enrich the traditional exploration of ageism as a problem relating to seniors with an analysis of mutual intergenerational relationships. Using the perspective of social identity theory, the relationships between young people and seniors are described as the result of the forming process of the own age and generational identities of young people and seniors and the mutual comparison and estranging of these groups. To answer the research questions regarding the methods of forming identities of the youth and age and the sources of mutual ageism, an analysis of qualitative interviews with young people and seniors and quantitative data from two international surveys (European Social Survey Round 4 and the International Social Survey Programme 2013) were used. Analyses in the empirical section show that ageism is more common in the Czech Republic than in other European country, and they also indicate the specific sources of ageism in the Czech environment. The importance of mutual expectations...

Submitted by Sandra Pereira (srpereira@ufrrj.br) on 2017-04-25T12:14:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Ruane Pereira Cordeiro.pdf: 1420669 bytes, checksum: 107c74e7d8e55aad92200e7f8219df8e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-25T12:14:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016 - Ruane Pereira Cordeiro.pdf: 1420669 bytes, checksum: 107c74e7d8e55aad92200e7f8219df8e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-15 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / The society divides, categorizes individuals into groups, and sets out characteristics considered normal and common for the members of each category. As regards the old age category, the attributes associated with the individuals who come to this stage of life still carry negative meanings, despite the efforts of recent years to reverse this situation. In this context, is the market as producer instance of discourse and representation of the old age, giving even to that stage of life negative meanings, given that the offerings for this audience are related to the limitations of the physical condition, and yet, in no way directed, but associated with old age the cosmetic market spreads rejection of the signs of aging. In this sense, the old identity of third age is stigmatized. Considering that identities are also negotiated, and the consumption one of the means by which individuals to allocate and appropriate the meanings communicate its position in the world, this research aimed: analyze how women between 65 and 75 years old use the meanings attributed to the consumption of goods and services to build and negotiate their identity age. The search was conducted with eleven women living in Rio de Janeiro - city and metropolitan area, the speeches of informants were analyzed through hermeneutic analysis. Data analysis points to: i) the symbolic demarcation of women age identity in old age occurs at confrontation of negative stereotype associated with aging; ii) Consumption plays a central role for socializing and building a more positive old identity; and iii) the cultural meaning of the body and their consumption are used by women as a way of building an age of identity in the third age. / A sociedade divide, categoriza os indiv?duos em grupos e estabelece caracter?sticas consideradas normais e comuns para os membros de cada categoria. No que se refere ? categoria et?ria da terceira idade, os atributos associados a essa fase da vida ainda carregam significados negativos, mesmo com os esfor?os dos ?ltimos anos para revers?o desse quadro. Nesse contexto, est? o mercado como inst?ncia produtora de discursos e representa??o sobre a terceira idade, atribuindo ainda a essa fase da vida significados negativos, haja vista que as ofertas para esse p?blico s?o relacionadas ?s limita??es da condi??o f?sica, e, ainda de forma n?o direcionada, mas associado ? terceira idade o mercado cosm?tico difunde a rejei??o aos sinais de envelhecimento. Nesse sentido, a identidade de idade da terceira idade ? uma identidade estigmatizada. Tendo em vista que as identidades s?o tamb?m negociadas, sendo o consumo um dos meios pelos quais os indiv?duos ao atribu?rem e se apropriarem dos significados comunicam sua posi??o no mundo, essa pesquisa teve como objetivo: analisar como as mulheres entre 65 e 75 anos utilizam os significados atribu?dos ao consumo de produtos e servi?os para constru?rem e negociarem sua identidade de idade. A pesquisa foi realizada com onze mulheres moradoras da regi?o metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, os discursos das informantes foram analisados atrav?s da an?lise hermen?utica. A an?lise dos dados aponta para: i) A demarca??o simb?lica da identidade de idade das mulheres na terceira acorre pelo enfrentamento do estere?tipo negativo associado ao envelhecimento; ii) O consumo exerce um papel central para a socializa??o e constru??o de um identidade de idade mais positiva; e iii) o significado cultural do corpo e seu consumo s?o utilizados pelas mulheres como forma de constru??o de uma identidade de idade na terceira idade

The social and economic experiences of older people in Scotland over the past two centuries provides a particularised lens through which larger themes of change and adaptation may be analysed. Older age cohorts are examined as specific identity groups within the context of a society in rapid transformation. The years c. 1845-1999 represent a period of time in which almost every sector was affected by industrialisation, urbanisation, migration, economic developments, technological and medical progress, and social reform. In combination with historical interpretations, modern sociological theory concerning the aged as a distinct social grouping provides the basis for further inquiry. Concepts such as status, social capital, interdependency, paternalism and citizenship have been of major importance in structuring this research. By means of demographic analysis, readings of written biographical documentation, and the incorporation of over fifty oral histories conducted in Dundee and Edinburgh, the role of the family in older people’s lives has been explored. Nineteenth and twentieth-century population trends have been incorporated as an area for detailed investigation of long-term familial practices. An understanding of the older person’s role in the family over time suggests a formalised socio-economic stability based upon kinship ties, gender roles, and economic and social reciprocity. Stage theory allows for examination of the economics of ageing, particularly in regard to employed and retired older people. Original research covering older people’s experiences of work in Dundee and Edinburgh provides qualitative and quantitative data on paternalistic policies in the brewing and jute industries, promotion and retirement practices, and economic status among the working elderly. The experience of being retired has been evaluated in terms of economic independence, social capital, class and gender. Analyses of the experience of retirement in the post-war era are bound with the rise of the modern welfare state. Significant government commissions and acts provide scope and sequence in an analysis of the role of the state in old age. Principally, the New Poor Law of 1845 (Scotland), the Pension Acts of 1908 and 1925, the National Insurance Act of 1946, as well as the social welfare acts of 1948 have been studied. Particular focus on the influence of the Social Work Act 1968 (Scotland) complements an overarching argument concerning Scotland’s unique practices in the modern welfare state. Emphasis is on care in the community, using statutory and voluntary services provided at the local level as case studies. Interpretations of older people in terms of their various roles in the welfare state, their communities and places of work, and within their families indicate that throughout the period, older populations have distinctively adapted to the long-term effects of modernisation in Scottish society.

This thesis considers the nature of pottery and its wider roles in the Highlands and Northern Isles of Scotland from 2500-1800 BC. The period under study represents a key moment in British prehistory with the introduction of metallurgy and wide-ranging changes in society. Since the inception of early Bronze Age studies pottery has played an important role in examinations of identity and chronology. As identified by several scholars there has been a recurrent emphasis on a select number of interpretive themes and regions such as Wessex and Aberdeenshire. This has marginalised certain areas creating an imbalance in our understanding of the tempo and dynamics of change during the period. Recent reviews have begun to address this issue, highlighting the importance of regional studies to our overall understanding of change in the later 3rd millennium. At present, there is no synthesis of ceramic material from the Highlands and Northern Isles that considers the diverse array of pot types and the contexts in which they are found. In response, this thesis aims to characterise the range of ceramic types, their contexts and associations. Through the course of this thesis a series of detailed regional datasets and interpretations are constructed. This is coupled with a review of the longer-term ceramic sequence across the study area, situating the advent of novel pot types within the existing ceramic repertoire. Secondly, this thesis examines the dynamics of ceramic similarity and difference, and what this reveals about regional preferences and identities alongside broader intra and supra regional networks. Drawing on recent relational approaches this thesis explores how ceramic categories came into being, persisted and dissipated at a range of scales. These approaches highlight the fluid nature of change and the need to consider pots as elements of wider assemblages. Through this examination it is possible to detect distinct trends in regional ceramics, allowing for the construction of narratives that extend beyond defining visual similarities, contributing towards understanding the wider significance of similarity and difference.