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Attitudes toward intergenerational exchanges among administrators in child and adult day care centres
Author(s)	Shirley S Travis, Andrew J Stremmel, Patti Kelly-Harrison
Journal title	Educational Gerontology, vol 23, no 8, December 1997
Pages	pp 775-787
Keywords	Day centres ; Children ; Age groups [elderly] ; Social interaction ; Personnel ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; United States of America.
Annotation	Previous attitudinal research regarding age has focused solely on adults' attitudes towards children, or, more commonly, societal attitudes toward older adults. This US study examines a new area of attitudinal research, factors that affect attitudes toward intergenerational exchanges (events) involving young children and older adults. Child and adult daycare professionals were selected as the study group, because their practice settings are increasingly popular, contemporary environments for intergenerational exchanges between these two intergenerational partners. The results of regression analyses demonstrate that administrators' attitudes are positively affected by contact with existing intergenerational programming, and suggest that future administrators' attitudes may be positively influenced by exposure to intergenerational programmes while on graduate and undergraduate courses. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980716003 A
Classmark	NMC: SBC: BB: TMA: QM: TOB: 7T
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