The relationships between self-assessment of hearing handicap as determined by the Hearing Handicap Scale and a battery of audiologic tests were investigated in an aged population of 100 individuals ranging from 60 to 87 years. Analysis of the data revealed that self-assessment of hearing handicap (1) was significantly related to the audiologic measures of pure-tone average, speech reception threshold, discrimination of words, and discrimination of sentences among individuals between 60 and 69 years, among female subjects, and for the total sample of subjects; (2) was significantly related to the puretone average and speech reception threshold for individuals between 70 and 79 years and for male subjects; and (3) was not significantly related to any audiologic measure for individuals between 80 and 87 years, although similar relationships were observed for this age group.