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 […]