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Purpose <p>To explore a set of psychosocial and behavioural correlates of self perceptions of aging among geriatric healthcare professionals.</p> Methods <p>A cross-sectional online survey was distributed through the EuGMS and the COST Action CA21122 “PROGRAMMING” network. Self perceptions of aging, resilience, health-related lifestyle behaviours, sociodemographic, health, and subjective age data were collected. Correlations and multiple linear regressions were performed.</p> Results <p>176 professionals from multiple countries participated. Professionals aged 60 + showed more positive attitudes in the physical change domain compared with younger peers, while psychosocial loss and psychological growth did not differ by age. Participants who felt younger than their chronological age had higher physical change, psychological growth, and resilience scores, indicating that feeling younger was associated with more positive attitudes toward physical and psychological aspects of aging, as well as greater psychological resilience. Resilience correlated positively with physical change and psychological growth, and negatively with psychosocial loss. Participants with academic postgraduate degrees showed more positive attitudes in the psychological growth subdomain. In adjusted regression analyses, higher psychological resilience was significantly associated with lower psychosocial loss perceptions (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.001) and greater psychological growth (<i>p</i> = 0.003). Subjective age was associated with physical change perceptions (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.001). Physical activity showed significant associations with both psychosocial loss (<i>p</i> = 0.036) and physical change perceptions (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.001<b>)</b>.</p> Conclusion <p>Geriatric specialists’ self perceptions of aging were associated with resilience, subjective age, physical activity, and professional factors, rather than demographic or lifestyle variables. These might be relevant targets for supporting more adaptive ageing perceptions among healthcare professionals, although causal direction cannot be inferred.</p>

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Factors associated with self-perceptions of ageing among geriatric healthcare professionals: a study by the early career geriatricians initiative group of EuGMS

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    2026年2月10日

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  • Sibel Çavdar,
  • Fatma Ozge Kayhan Koçak,
  • Karolina Piotrowicz,
  • Arzu Okyar Baş,
  • Lin Zhu,
  • Francesco Salis,
  • Santiago Cotobal Rodeles,
  • Lene Holst Andersen,
  • Andrea Sebastiano Ciccone,
  • Maria Bonnici,
  • Marina Kotsani,
  • William McKeown,
  • Anne Ekdahl

摘要

Purpose

To explore a set of psychosocial and behavioural correlates of self perceptions of aging among geriatric healthcare professionals.

Methods

A cross-sectional online survey was distributed through the EuGMS and the COST Action CA21122 “PROGRAMMING” network. Self perceptions of aging, resilience, health-related lifestyle behaviours, sociodemographic, health, and subjective age data were collected. Correlations and multiple linear regressions were performed.

Results

176 professionals from multiple countries participated. Professionals aged 60 + showed more positive attitudes in the physical change domain compared with younger peers, while psychosocial loss and psychological growth did not differ by age. Participants who felt younger than their chronological age had higher physical change, psychological growth, and resilience scores, indicating that feeling younger was associated with more positive attitudes toward physical and psychological aspects of aging, as well as greater psychological resilience. Resilience correlated positively with physical change and psychological growth, and negatively with psychosocial loss. Participants with academic postgraduate degrees showed more positive attitudes in the psychological growth subdomain. In adjusted regression analyses, higher psychological resilience was significantly associated with lower psychosocial loss perceptions (p < 0.001) and greater psychological growth (p = 0.003). Subjective age was associated with physical change perceptions (p < 0.001). Physical activity showed significant associations with both psychosocial loss (p = 0.036) and physical change perceptions (p < 0.001).

Conclusion

Geriatric specialists’ self perceptions of aging were associated with resilience, subjective age, physical activity, and professional factors, rather than demographic or lifestyle variables. These might be relevant targets for supporting more adaptive ageing perceptions among healthcare professionals, although causal direction cannot be inferred.