“Attitudes” toward the elderly: A comparison of measures
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Experimental Aging Research
- Vol. 2 (2) , 119-124
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610737608257983
Abstract
College students were presented five questionnaires traditionally used to assess attitudes toward old people. The intercorrelations among the measures were low, accounting for no more than 24% of the variance between any two measures. The results suggest that the measures are not equivalent; it was argued that the practice of utilizing a single instrument to measure attitudes toward the elderly may contribute to inconsistencies reported in the literature.Keywords
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