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| College students' trait ratings of three age groups around the Pacific Rim | | Author(s) | J Harwood, H Giles, H Ota, |
| Journal title | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 11, no 4, December 1996 |
| Pages | pp 307-317 |
| Keywords | Older people ; Young people ; Middle aged ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Students ; Cross cultural surveys ; Korea ; Hong Kong ; United States of America ; Philippines ; Australia ; New Zealand. |
| Annotation | In this paper, the traits which younger adults associate with younger, middle-aged and older adults in a number of Pacific Rim nations were assessed. Two dependent variables (personal vitality and benevolence) emerged from factor analyses of a series of trait adjectives. Cross cultural trends emerged which replicated patterns found in the United States (US) context. Main effects indicated declines in ratings of personal vitality and increases in ratings of benevolence with increasing target-age. However, interesting variations on this pattern emerged in different cultures. In particular, very negative evaluations of ageing in Hong Kong, and a lack of differentiation between middle-aged and older adults in the Philippines and New Zealand were found. Little evidence emerged supporting the notion of particular positive evaluations of older adults in Asian cultures. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980513256 A |
| Classmark | B: SB: SE: TOB: XN: 3KA: 7DK: 7DR: 7T: 7XK: 7YA: 7YN |
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