College Students' Perceptions about Older People and Aging

Autor/inn/en	Kimuna, Sitawa R.; Knox, David; Zusman, Marty
Titel	College Students' Perceptions about Older People and Aging
Quelle	In: Educational Gerontology, 31 (2005) 7, S.563-572 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-1277
Schlagwörter	College Students; Age; Student Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Alter; Lebensalter; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	This study assessed the perceptions of college students at a large southeastern university about aging and older people. Participants were 441 students from age 17 to 49 years with a median age of 19 years. There were 118 males (26.8%) and 323 females (73.2%). The results indicated that students believed a person is "old" at the age of 60 years. In addition, most respondents perceive aging according to the frequency of contact with older people. Students who had worked with older people were significantly (p<.02) more likely to believe that older people have little interest in sex and little capacity for having sex than those who had lived with grandparents. Social class, political affiliation, race, and religion of the students were also analyzed. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10