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Predictors of college students' knowledge of and attitudes toward elderly sexuality — the relevance of grandparental contact
Author(s)	Jennifer L Hillman, George Stricker
Journal title	Educational Gerontology, vol 22, no 6, September 1996
Pages	pp 539-555
Keywords	Sexual activity ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social contacts ; Students ; Young people ; Adults ; Grandparents ; Evaluation ; United States of America.
Annotation	In this study, 241 young and middle aged adult college students completed the Aging Sexuality Knowledge and Attitude Scale, and provided information about their demographic and grandparental relationship qualities. Findings showed that greater age was associated with increased knowledge of elderly sexuality. Both the presence of contact and greater than average perceptions of closeness with at least one grandparent were predictive of more permissive attitudes towards elderly sexuality. However, the presence of contact with at least one grandparent moderated this relationship; young adults without grandparental contact presented a nonsignificant knowledge/attitude relationship. Health care educators may need to reconsider the commonly held assumption that greater knowledge of elderly sexuality being associated exclusively with more permissive attitudes.
Accession Number	CPA-970312008 A
Classmark	BIU: TOB: TOA: XN: SB: SD: SW: 4C: 7T
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