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| Child and adolescent knowledge and attitudes about older adults across time and states | | Author(s) | Patricia A Haught, Richard T Walls, James D Laney |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 25, no 6, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp 501-518 |
| Keywords | Infants ; Schoolchildren ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Questionnaires ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The original Palmore's Facts on Aging Quiz was modified and presented to 954 elementary, middle and high school pupils (grades 3, 6, 9, 12) in West Virginia and Texas. Three separate experiments were summarised involving the Child-Adolescent Facts on Aging Quiz (CAFAQ). Similar responses on number of correct items and bias were noted in 1983 and 1998. Adolescents showed positive bias, but elementary school children showed negative bias toward older people. Female adolescents tended to show more positive bias than their male counterparts. With regard to ethnicity, white adolescents answered more correct items than Hispanics, who tended to show more negative bias than blacks or whites. No relationship between weekly contact with an older person and accuracy or bias was observed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991022209 A |
| Classmark | SBF: SBM: TOB: 3DA: 7T |
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