age identity

age identity (countable and uncountable, plural age identities)

1. (psychology) The age category such as "child", "young adult", "old person", etc. that is part of a person's self-identity.
   • 1992 December, John R. Logan, Russell Ward, Glenna Spitze, “As Old as You Feel”, in Social Forces, volume 21, number 2, Oxford University Press, →ISSN:

     "You're only as old as you feel." This cultural adage captures an understanding of age as more than simple chronology; rather, age is a construct having social content and personal meaning. This viewpoint is also reflected in a scholarly interest in age identity, or the circumstances under which people attach age labels to themselves and the consequences of those labels.

   • 2020 January 16, Andrew D. Brown, The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     While all identities are inherently dynamic, age identity constitutes a special case of normative identity fluidity and temporality: individuals are expected to belong to different chronologically sequenced age identities over the course of their lives […]

   • 2016 November 26, Emma Parry, Jean McCarthy, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work, Springer Publishing, →ISBN, page 60:

     One way in which generational studies can inform age identity studies is by leveraging the common age-based generational identity labels of Millennials, Baby Boomers, and Generation X to explore how their associated stereotypes […] can inform self and others' definitions.

   • 2004 January 15, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, “Age Identity Revisited” (chapter 7), in Aged by Culture, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 124:

     Most people's "age identity" appears to be heavy on the declining body and product placement, light on culture.