Perceptions of age-identity: A cross-cultural inner-age exploration

摘要: This article presents an exploratory and comparative study of the nature of cognitive and desired age perceptions among 20–59‐year‐old men and women in three East Asian societies: India, Korea, and China. Research questions were posed about the role of gender and self‐identification with being either “young” or “middle‐aged.” The data indicate that gender plays no significant role in age perception in the three nations surveyed. The great majority of respondents under 40 considered themselves young and rejected a middle‐age …