Attitudes Toward Aging and Behaviors Toward the Elderly Among Young People as a Function of Death Anxiety

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This study correlated Tempter's Death Anxiety Scale among 65 college students with their attitudes and behaviors toward the elderly. There was no evidence for the anxiety-denial hypothesis that fear of aging and death results in repression of ideas associated with aging and with rejection of the elderly. On the contrary, there was moderate evidence for the anxiety-reduction hypothesis that death anxiety leads to improved attitudes and behaviors toward the elderly, perhaps in an attempt to reduce one's own fears of aging.

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