scholarly journals An Investigation of Chronological Versus Cognitive Age Impact in the Kuwait Coffee Shop Market

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
Larry P. Pleshko ◽  
Richard A. Heiens
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Coffee Shop ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Cognitive Age ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Perceived Age ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
The Impact

Given the growing body of research dedicated to self-perceived age and the cognitive age construct, it is widely believed that one’s self-perceived age may actually be a better predictor of age-related psychological states or attitudes than mere chronological age. Extending the research on cognitive age, the current study examines the impact of both cognitive age and traditional chronological age on the behaviors of coffee shop users in Kuwait. The study finds that chronological age and cognitive age are highly correlated, both in age levels and in terms of consumer behavior. Nevertheless, a large portion of the sample perceived themselves to be younger than their chronological age. This is especially true of consumers aged 55 and over. The main findings that differentiate chronological age from cognitive age are that as Kuwaiti consumers become chronologically older, coffee drinks become more important to them. Also, as cognitive age increases, consumers are less likely to drink coffee with friends.

Abstract 160: DNA-Methylation and Aging. Contribution of Biological Age to Recovery After Ischemic Stroke

Stroke ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Jimenez-Conde ◽  
Carolina Soriano-Tarraga ◽  
Eva Giralt-Steinhauer ◽  
Marina Mola ◽  
Rosa Vivanco-Hidalgo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Methylation ◽  
Ischemic Stroke ◽  
Functional Status ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
Stroke Severity ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Recovery Capacity ◽  
The Impact

Background: Stroke has a great impact in functional status of patients, although there are substantial interindividual differences in recovery capacity. Apart from stroke severity, age is considered an important predictor of outcome after stroke, but aging is not only due to chronological age. There are age-related DNA-methylation changes in multiple CpG sites across the genome that can be used to estimate the biological age (b-Age), and we seek to analyze the impact of this b-Age in recovery after an ischemic stroke. Methods: We include 600 individuals with acute ischemic stroke assessed in Hospital del Mar (Barcelona). Demographic and clinical data such as chronological age (c-Age), vascular risk factors, NIHSS at admission, recanalization treatment (rtPA or endovascular treatment), previous modified Rankin scale (p-mRS) and 3 months post stroke functional status (3-mRS) were registered. Biological age (b-Age) was estimated with Hannumm algorithm, based on DNA methylation in 71 CpGs. Results: The bivariate analyses for association with 3-mRS showed a significant results of NIHSS, c-Age, b-Age, p-mRS, and current smoking (all with p<0.001). Recanalization treatment showed no significant differences in bivariate analysis. In multivariate ordinal models, b-Age kept its significance (p=0.025) nullifying c-Age (p=0.84). Initial NIHSS, p-mRS and recanalization treatment kept also significant results (p<0.001). Conclusions: Biological Age, estimated by DNA methylation, is an independent predictor of stroke prognosis, irrespective to chronological age. "Healthy aging” affects the capacity of recovering after an ischemic stroke.

Revisiting the Age Construct: Implications for Service Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 109467052097513
Author(s):  
Volker G. Kuppelwieser ◽  
Philipp Klaus
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Marketing Practice ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Cognitive Age

People in the older consumer segment spend more money on services than those in other segments, making them a desired target for service providers. This universal trend has led researchers to start discussing this trend’s implications for service research and marketing practice. These discussions’ results are ambiguous because service researchers and managers face the problem of having to choose between three main age constructs: chronological age, cognitive age, and future time perspective (FTP). Unfortunately, current age-related research lacks an understanding of their real value, as only a few studies have combined them to discuss their specific impact. Recognizing this gap in the literature, this article compares the three age constructs in behavioral and perceptional settings. We highlight each age construct’s merits and weaknesses as well as exploring which construct delivers the best results in which service context. Bayesian analyses of our data reveal that chronological age has its merits as a control variable but does not sufficiently discriminate between age groups’ behavior and perceptions. Cognitive age is useful if customers’ own age perceptions are included but only identifies age differences in specific service settings. FTP consistently detects age-related differences in customers’ perceptions and in their behavior in all contexts.

How Old Do You Think I Am? Speech-Language Predictors of Perceived Age and Communicative Competence

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. 2455-2472
Author(s):  
Jean K. Gordon ◽  
Kim Andersen ◽  
Gabriella Perez ◽  
Eileen Finnegan
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Perceived Age ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Spoken language serves as a primary means of social interaction, but speech and language skills change with age, a potential source of age-related stereotyping. The goals of this study were to examine how accurately age could be estimated from language samples, to determine which speech and language cues were most informative, and to assess the impact of perceived age on judgments of the speakers' communication skills. Method We analyzed narratives from 84 speakers aged 30–89 years to identify age-related differences and compared these differences to factors affecting perceptions of age and communicative competence. Three groups of raters estimated the speakers' ages and judged the quality of their communication: 44 listeners listened to audio-recorded narratives, 51 readers read transcripts of the narratives, and 24 voice raters listened to 10-s samples of speech extracted from one of the narratives. Results Older speakers spoke more slowly but showed minimal linguistic differences compared to younger speakers. Speakers' ages were estimated quite accurately, even from 10-s samples. Estimates were largely based on cues available in the acoustic signal—speech rate and vocal characteristics—so listeners were more accurate than readers. However, an overreliance on these cues also contributed to overestimates of speakers' ages. Communication ratings were not strongly related to perceived age but were influenced by various aspects of speech and language. In particular, speakers who produced longer narratives and spoke more quickly were judged to be better communicators. Conclusion Speakers tend to be judged on relatively superficial aspects of spoken language, in part because age-related change is most evident at these levels. Implications of these findings for age-related theories of stereotyping and speech-language intervention are discussed.

scholarly journals Characterizing the Heterogeneity of Aging: A Vision for a Staging System for Aging

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efraim Jaul ◽  
Jeremy Barron
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Functional State ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Primary Care Providers ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Anticipatory Guidance ◽  
Geriatric Syndromes ◽  
Age Related ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: Older adulthood encompasses several decades of change and heterogeneity. Primary care providers need a geriatric comprehensive vision for defining older adult subpopulations.Methods: Using PubMed and Google searches, we reviewed the literature on epidemiology of age-related physiological changes, age-related diseases and geriatric syndromes, functional state, and emotional and social changes. We divided old age into strata based on chronological age and strata based on functional state, disease burden, and geriatric syndromes.Results: We describe 4 chronological-age strata beginning at age 60, and 4 functional-age strata based on frailty according to a modified clinical frailty scale. We provide clinical considerations and anticipatory guidance topics for each of the age strata and functional strata.Conclusion: Chronological age, functional status, chronic disease burden and geriatric syndromes, and life expectancy are all important domains that impact clinical care and appropriate anticipatory guidance for individual older adults. Better knowledge for differentiating subpopulations of older adults may improve clinical care, reduce medical overuse, improve personalized anticipatory guidance, and focus on the impact of functional state on the quality of life.

scholarly journals The Epigenetic Pacemaker is a more sensitive tool than penalized regression for identifying moderators of epigenetic aging

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Farrell ◽  
Kalsuda Lapborisuth ◽  
Chanyue Hu ◽  
Kyle Pu ◽  
Sagi Snir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Methylation ◽  
Penalized Regression ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Epigenetic State ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Epigenetic Aging ◽  
Epigenetic Age ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Epigenetic clocks, DNA methylation based chronological age prediction models, are commonly employed to study age related biology. The error between the predicted and observed age is often interpreted as a form of biological age acceleration and many studies have measured the impact of environmental and other factors on epigenetic age. Epigenetic clocks are fit using approaches that minimize the error between the predicted and observed chronological age and as a result they reduce the impact of factors that may moderate the relationship between actual and epigenetic age. Here we compare the standard methods used to construct epigenetic clocks to an evolutionary framework of epigenetic aging, the epigenetic pacemaker (EPM) that directly models DNA methylation as a function of a time dependent epigenetic state. We show that the EPM is more sensitive than epigenetic clocks for the detection of factors that moderate the relationship between actual age and epigenetic state (ie epigenetic age). Specifically, we show that the EPM is more sensitive at detecting sex and cell type effects in a large aggregate data set and in an example case study is more sensitive sensitive at detecting age related methylation changes associated with polybrominated biphenyl exposure. Thus we find that the pacemaker provides a more robust framework for the study of factors that impact epigenetic age acceleration than traditional clocks based on linear regression models.

Pengaruh Lintas Budaya Pada Pemasaran Internasional Dengan Pendekatan Perilaku Konsumen

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-176
Author(s):  
Endy Gunanto ◽  
Yenni Kurnia Gusti
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cross Culture ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Cultural Orientations ◽  
The Impact

In this article we present a conceptual of the effect of cross culture on consumer behavior incorporating the impact of globalization. This conceptual idea shows that culture inûuences various domains of consumer behavior directly as well as through international organization to implement marketing strategy. The conceptual identify several factors such as norm and value in the community, several variables and also depicts the impact of other environmental factors and marketing strategy elements on consumer behavior. We also identify categories of consumer culture orientation resulting from globalization. Highlights of each of the several other articles included in this special issue in Asia region. We conclude with the contributions of the articles in terms of the consumer cultural orientations and identify directions for future research.

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