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Likes and Dislikes About own Age

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- Domains
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Likes and Dislikes About own Age:
General Information

When? | Time 1 | Time 2 | Time 3 | Time 4 | Time 5 | Time 6 | Time 7
Where? | - | - | Intensive Protocol (IP) | Intensive Protocol (IP) | - | - | -
Questionnaire | - | - | IP: Self and Personality p. 1 | IP: Self and Personality p. 1 | - | - | -
SIR Data bank | - | - | IP: Psycho rec/table 206 (P3const) | IP: Psycho rec/table 306 (P3const) | - | - | -

As the first task of the Time 3 and Time 4 questionnaire on Self and Personality, subjects were asked to describe spontaneously what they like and what they dislike about their age. These spontaneous statements were assessed using an open "I especially like about my age.../I dislike about my age..." sentence as shown in the instructions.
Subjects responses were tape recorded and transcribed verbatim. These transcriptions were subsequently content analyzed and rated. The unsegmented responses were coded as entire protocols in terms of domains (e.g., personal characteristics, health, etc.). This coding is not identical to the domain-coding of the answers in the 'Who am I'- and the 'Possible Selves'-Tasks. Further dimensions coded were reference to loss or gain as well as valence. Coding was done by two different coders, independently of each other.

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Likes and Dislikes About own Age:
Instructions used in BASE

At every point in life things normally occur, that people especially appreciate about their age. What do you think? For example: Are there things you like about your age? Are there special experiences linked to your age that you appreciate? What do you like about your age? Please give two examples: I will write the sentences for you. I especially like about my age...........................? I will write the sentences for you. You have just described what you specially appreciate about your age. But every point in life also has difficult sides. There are always things that people don't appreciate about their age. What do you think? For example: Are there things you don't like about your age? Are there special experiences linked to your age that you don't appreciate? What do you not like about your age? Please give two examples: I don't like about my age...........................? Again, I will write the sentences for you.

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Likes and Dislikes About own Age:
Domains

Domains consisted of the following:

1. Everyday routine

2. Everyday competence

3. Personal characteristics

4. Health

5. Family and social relationships

6. Leisure

7. Existential concerns

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Likes and Dislikes About own Age:
Further Dimensions

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#### A. Valence

Under the dimension of valence, the content was coded in terms of age-satisfaction or age-dissatisfaction. Valence was rated on a five-point-scale (very negative, negative, balanced, positive, very positive), first for the answers to both questions taken together. In a second step, the answers to each task were rated separately.

B. Loss and Gain

Three variables were used to code whether each statement referred to something that had been gained, something that had been lost, or something that had been stayed the same. The coding was: 0 = neither loss or gain had occurred, 1 = the gain or loss was positive and -1 = the gain or loss was negative.

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Likes and Dislikes About own Age:
Raw Constructs Created in BASE

| Constructs | Construct names Time 3
Likes
| #### Domains
1. | Like about own age: everyday routine | p3aldayr
2. | Like about own age: everyday competence | p3alcomp
3. | Like about own age: personal characteristics | p3alchar
4. | Like about own age: health | p3alheal
5. | Like about own age: family and social relationships | p3alfami
6. | Like about own age: leisure | p3alleis
7. | Like about own age: existential concerns | p3alexis
| #### Further dimensions
A. | Like and dislike about own age: balance of valence | p3abalan
Like about own age: valence | p3alrate
B. | Like about own age: loss | p3alloss
Like about own age: gain | p3algain
Like about own age: status quo | p3alsquo
Dislikes
| #### Domains
1. | Dislike about own age: everyday routine | p3addayr
2. | Dislike about own age: everyday competence | p3adcomp
3. | Dislike about own age: personal characteristics | p3adchar
4. | Dislike about own age: health | p3adheal
5. | Dislike about own age: family and social relationships | p3adfami
6. | Dislike about own age: leisure | p3adleis
7. | Dislike about own age: existential concerns | p3adexis
| #### Further dimensions
A. | Like and dislike about own age: balance of valence | p3abalan
Dislike about own age: valence | p3adrate
B. | Dislike about own age: loss | p3adloss
Dislike about own age: gain | p3adgain
Dislike about own age: status quo | p3adsquo

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