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Young adult attachment styles and perceptions of elder abuse — a cross-cultural study
Author(s)	Kathleen Malley-Morrison, Hyo Soon You, Robert B Mills
Journal title	Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 15, no 3, 2000
Pages	pp 163-184
Keywords	Young adults [20-25] ; Students ; Attitude ; Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; Cross cultural surveys ; United States of America ; Korea.
Annotation	Young people's judgments of the abusiveness and typicality of caregivers' abusive behaviours towards older people were gathered from 100 Caucasian American and 115 Korean college students, who completed Bartholomew's 4-category measure of attachment styles and Mills' Elderly Caregiving Questionnaire. The Koreans judged material and physical maltreatment of an older person as significantly less abusive, and psychological maltreatment as significantly more abusive than did the Americans. There were no gender differences in judgments of either the abusiveness of the typicality of the various forms of elder maltreatment. Multiple regression analyses revealed that both culture and insecure attachment contributed significantly to judgments of the abusiveness and typicality of aggressive and neglectful behaviours committed by a caretaker against an older person. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010222211 A
Classmark	SD6: XN: DP: QNT: QNR: 3KA: 7T: 7DK
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