Age diversity and individual team member health: The moderating role of age and age stereotypes: The moderating role of age and age stereotypes

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Abstract

Applying social identity theory and the relational demography approach, this paper proposes that the effect of age diversity on individual team members' health is contingent on the individual age as well as on age stereotypes. We suggest that younger and older employees' health is negatively associated with age diversity, while middle-aged team members' health is not affected. We further postulate that age stereotypes strengthen the negative effect of age diversity for the younger age group, while they weaken the effect for older employees. For middle-aged team members, age stereotypes are expected not to determine the relationship between age diversity and health. We tested our hypotheses based on data from a representative sample of the German workforce (n=1,214). The results fully confirmed our hypotheses.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)184-202
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of occupational and organizational psychology
Volume86
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2013
Peer-reviewedYes

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WOS 000317928100004
Scopus 84876452113
ORCID /0000-0002-0015-5120/work/142239841

Keywords

Keywords

  • Age diversity, team, health