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Attitudes toward older adults reported by young adults
— variations based on attitudinal task and attribute categories | | Author(s) | Carole S Slotterback, David A Saarnio |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 11, no 4, December 1996 |
| Pages | pp 563-571 |
| Keywords | Young adults [20-25] ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Evaluation ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Negative attitudes toward older adults are thought to be prevalent within the American culture. However, research on attitudes presents conflicting results. In this study, two factors were hypothesised to influence reported attitudes toward older people: the attitudinal instrument use (a rating task vs an open-ended task) and the types of attributes assessed (cognitive, personal-expressive, and physical). The results confirmed that attitudes toward older people were negative, relative to attitudes toward younger and middle-aged adults, but the pattern of negativity differed by task and attribute category. Negativity was most apparent in the open-ended task and in the physical category. These results indicate that although general, negative stereotypes may exist, older adults are viewed as multi-dimensional people with both positive and negative attributes. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120220 A |
| Classmark | SD6: TOB: 4C: 3F: 7T |
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