Summary information
Study title
Aging, body image and identity 1998
Creator
Tornstam, Lars (Department of Sociology, Uppsala University)
Öberg, Peter (Department of Sociology, Uppsala University)
Study number / PID
snd0818-1-1.2 (SND)
https://doi.org/10.5878/002423 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
The purpose of this project is to study the relationship between people's own body-associations and identity-conceptions in an extensive survey of individuals between 20 and 85 years of age. Among others; it intend to scrutinize the extent to which people themselves are experiencing their own bodies, in the negative, way that theories of social gerontology and the ideals of popular culture propose and to identify the categories of individuals who might do so.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/1998 - 31/12/1998
Country
Sweden
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Individual
Universe
Swedish population aged 20-85 years
Sampling procedure
Not availableKind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Not availableAccess
Publisher
Swedish National Data Service
Publication year
2010
Terms of data access
Access to data through SND. Data are accessible by order.
Related publications
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