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Undergraduate interest in aging — is it affected by contact with older adults?
Author(s)	Yehudit Gorelik, JoAnn Damron-Rodriguez, Brooke Funderburk
Journal title	Educational Gerontology, vol 26, no 7, 2000
Pages	pp 623-638
Keywords	Students ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social contacts ; Social interaction ; Age groups [elderly] ; United States of America.
Annotation	Undergraduate student interest in ageing was examined in relation to age, gender and contact with older people, with reference to 189 students who have taken an ageing course and a stratified random sample comparison group of 261 self-assessed for their interest in ageing. Being female and having frequent contact with older family members significantly explains initial interest in ageing. Initial interest in ageing (i.e. taking an ageing course) significantly contributes to substantial interest in ageing (i.e. taking further courses in ageing, or planning to work with older people). Interest in ageing proceeds along a continuum, from preceding factors to initial interest in ageing and then to substantial interest in ageing. Ageing courses and opportunities for interaction with older people should be offered at undergraduate level. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010111204 A
Classmark	XN: TOB: TOA: TMA: BB: 7T
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