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College students' attitudes toward elderly sexuality
— a two factor solution | | Author(s) | Jennifer L Hillman, George Stricker |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 15, no 4, Winter 1996 |
| Pages | pp 543-558 |
| Keywords | Sexual activity ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Students ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The present study examined and challenged the adequacy of the Aging Sexuality Knowledge and Attitude Scale (ASKAS) to assess individuals' attitudes toward older people's sexuality. 458 students (mean age 27; standard deviation, 8.67) completed the attitude subscale of ASKAS, responded to a series of elders' sexuality attitude items constructed by the authors, and provided self-report information for a number of demographic and personality variables. A factor analysis of all attitude items revealed a two factor solution in which items leading on from the first factor appeared to represent more restrictive (i.e. less permissive) attitudes towards elder sexuality, whereas items leading on from the second factor appeared to represent more empathic attitudes. The validity of this bivariate attitude structure appears to be supported by the differentially predictive nature of a number of subject variables including religiosity, death anxiety, salience of elder sexuality, and age. The discovery of this underlying two factor attitude solution is also used to interpret previously discrepant findings regarding health care providers' attitudes towards older people's sexuality. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970821283 A |
| Classmark | BIU: TOB: XN: 4C: 7T |
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