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| Predicting specific service awareness dimensions | | Author(s) | Robert J Calsyn, Joel P Winter |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 21, no 6, November 1999 |
| Pages | pp 762-780 |
| Keywords | Services ; Domiciliary services ; Financial services [older people] ; Needs [elderly] ; Awareness [services] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A sample of some 5,000 over 60s from the 1994 needs assessment study of the Missouri Department of Social Service's Division of Aging and the 10 Missouri Area Agencies on Aging (AAA) provided data for this study. Factor analysis was used to identify the following four dimensions of agency awareness: in-home services, ageing network services, financial services, and other services. Then, 18 variables assessing the various dimensions of the behavioural model were included in multiple regression equations predicting each of the awareness dimensions. The regression equation only accounted for 7% to 13% of the variance of the various service dimensions. The behavioural model has consistently failed to explain much of the variance of service awareness not only in this study but also in other past research. Gerontologists should consider using other models of knowledge acquisition in researching how older people acquire information about services, for example the ability to name a specific agency. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991201206 A |
| Classmark | I: N: J: IK: QLA: 7T |
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