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| Intergenerational intervention to mitigate children's bias against the elderly | | Author(s) | Renee L Babcock, Eileen E MaloneBeach, Beini Woodworth-Hou |
| Journal title | Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, vol 14, no 4, October-December 2016 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, October-December 2016 |
| Pages | pp 274-287 |
| Source | htpp://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Attitudes to the old of general public ; Ageism ; Schoolchildren ; Education ; Projects ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | An age-segregated society fosters ageism and has negative consequences for both young and old. The persistence of ageism may be due to a cultural fear of growing older, or gerontophobia (Bunzel, 1972), and is actively cultivated through various forms of communication and misinformation. Unfortunately young children are exposed to the damaging effects of ageism through their interactions with an ageist society. Partially in response to this prejudice, intergenerational programmes that involve some form of common activity shared in a multigenerational setting have become popular. The current study utilised the Child-Age Implicit Association Test and two measures of explicit bias to determine whether an intergenerational intervention could mitigate negative age biases in elementary schoolchildren. Though the programme did not seem to reduce bias, it was clear that implicit biases exist and that they seem to be distinct from explicit bias. It is suggested that a different programme or different age groups may be more effective in reducing ageism in children. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170217221 A |
| Classmark | TOB: B:TOB: SBM: V: 3E: 7T |
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