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Subjective Age

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When? | Time 1 | Time 2 | Time 3 | Time 4 | Time 5 | Time 4 | Time 5
Where? | Intensive Protocol (IP) | - | Intensive Protocol (IP) | Intensive Protocol (IP) | Intensive Protocol (IP) | Intensive Protocol (IP) | Intake Assessment (EE)
Questionnaire | IP: Self and Personality p. 13 | - | IP: Self and Personality p. 11 | IP: Self and Personality p. 11 | IP: Self and Personality p. 8 | IP: Self and Personality p. 8 | EE: Intake Assessment p. 12
SIR Data bank | IP: Psycho rec/table 1 (P1data) rec/table 2 (P1const) | - | IP: Psycho rec/table 201 (P3data) rec/table 202 (P3const) | IP: Psycho rec/table 301 (P4data) rec/table 302 (P4const) | IP: Psycho rec/table 401 (P5data) rec/table 402 (P5const) | IP: Psycho rec/table 501 (P6data) rec/table 502 (P6const) | EE: ZPK rec/table 610 (Z7ee)

The participants' subjective age was assessed with three items (adapted from Kastenbaum, Derbin, Sabatini, & Artt, 1972; Montepare & Lachman, 1989): Age felt, age appeared, and age desired. Participants were shown an age scale from 0 to 120 years and asked to select a year. (This was introduced with "People often say that they feel older or younger than they really are. What do you think?"). At the 5th measurement point only age felt and age desired were included in the assessment.

Literature: Smith & Baltes, 1996, 1999.

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According to the design, variable names for Time 1 have the prefix p1, names for Time 3 have the prefix p3,
names for Time 4 have the prefix p4, names for Time 5 have the prefix p5, and names for Time 6 have the prefix p6.
Names for Time 7 have the prefix p7 although the data were administrated in the intake assessment.

| Original items | Translations used in BASE | Variable names Time 1 | Variable names Time 3 | Variable names Time 4 | Variable names Time 5 | Variable names Time 6 | Variable names Time 7
1. | How old do you feel? | Wie alt fühlen Sie sich? | p1dsagef | + | + | + | + | +
2. | How old would you say you look in the mirror ? | Wenn Sie sich im Spiegel ansehen, für wie alt würden Sie sich halten? | p1dsagea | + | + | - | + | +
3. | If you were to think about what age you could reach, what would you say? What do you think? | Wenn Sie jetzt mal daran denken, wie alt Sie wohl werden, was glauben Sie da? Wie alt werden Sie wohl? | - | - | - | P5dsageg | - | -
4. | And with some luck? What age do you think you could reach if you are lucky? | Und mit etwas Glück? Was glauben Sie, wie alt werden Sie vielleicht mit etwas Glück? | - | - | - | P5dsagel | - | -
5. | If you could pick out your age right now, how old would you like to be? | Wenn Sie sich vorstellen, Sie könnten sich Ihr Alter aussuchen,wie alt möchten Sie jetzt sein? | p1dsaged | + | + | + | + | +
6. | If you think about your health, how old do you feel? | Wenn Sie an ihre Gesundheut denken, wie alt fühlen Sie sich? | - | - | - | - | - | p7dsageh

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