Gendered Perceptions Of Aging Essay

In lesson 2.06,I learned about the different perspective of aging. After reading two articles of about the differences between how young people view senior citizenship compared to how senior citizens see themselves, both articles came up with significant findings.In the passage, Gendered Perceptions of Aging: An Examination of College Students (Barnett and Von Rohr) it shows that the gender of a young person can effects the way they look at getting older or just elders. As proof,the text states, “ Forty-one percent of men’s drawings were rated as negative, in contrast with only 16% of women’s sketches. Fifty-four percent of the drawings by women depicted positive images, compared with only 32% of sketches by men.’’ This shows that men have a more pessimistic view of getting older compared to women. It also showed that unexpectedly women cared more about their cognition and physical health. The text states, “…Contrary to our expectations, we also find that women have greater anxiety than men about declines in cognitive and physical abilities. In sum, our findings suggest that women tend to have more anxiety about their own aging than do men” . In the passage, Embracing Opposites: Meanings of Growing Old as Narrated by People Aged 85 (Fischer, Norberg and Lundman), …show more content…
In the passage,Gendered Perceptions of Aging: An Examination of College Students (Barnett and Von Rohr) it writes about how young people view elders and getting older. They also based their study on gender. The study focuses on how young men and women see their gender when they get older. In comparison to the passage,Embracing Opposites: Meanings of Growing Old as Narrated by People Aged 85 (Fischer, Norberg and Lundman), this passage takes various opinions of how elders look back at their past and how they overcome the obstacles that come along with old age such as becoming lonely and isolated or being connected to their environment