Ostracism, that is, being excluded and ignored by others, is a highly painful and threatening experience for individuals. Most empirical research on ostracism has been carried out in the lab or focused on samples in specific contexts. Here, we investigate the effects of age on how individuals experience ostracism within a broad, representative sample of the adult German population (the Socio-Economic Panel). We find a generally negative relation between ostracism and age, such that older adults report experiencing ostracism less frequently. Further analyses show that a particular dip in the ostracism frequency curve around the age of 65 might be at least partly due to leaving the workforce. We further investigate cross-sectional as well as longitudinal effects of age on relations between ostracism frequency and psychological well-being, showing relatively stable associations between ostracism and negative emotions, reduced life satisfaction, as well as dysfunctional social behavior across the adult life span. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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成年后被排斥的经历。

排斥，即被他人排斥和忽视，对个人来说是一种非常痛苦和威胁的经历。大多数关于排斥的实证研究都是在实验室中进行的，或者集中在特定背景下的样本上。在这里，我们调查了年龄对德国成年人群体（社会经济小组）的广泛代表性样本中个体如何经历排斥的影响。我们发现排斥与年龄之间存在普遍的负相关关系，因此老年人报告遭受排斥的频率较低。进一步的分析表明，65 岁左右被排斥频率曲线的特定下降可能至少部分是由于离开劳动力市场。我们进一步研究了年龄对排斥频率和心理健康之间关系的横断面和纵向影响，表现出排斥和消极情绪之间相对稳定的关联，降低生活满意度，以及整个成年期的社会行为失调。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。