Graduate Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Sexually Active Older Persons
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 24 (3) , 299-302
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/24.3.299
Abstract
A review of empirical evidence relevant to widespread assumptions about taboos for aged sexuality is supplemented by a report of a study measuring the attitudes of 114 students enrolled in a Master of Science nursing program toward a 68-year-old woman. These nurses, each of whom read a vignette which either contained or excluded information about the woman's sexual activity, exhibited a statistically significant bias favoring the sexually active version on such variables as well-adjustedness and cheerfulness. Implications for practice are discussed.Keywords
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