Children and aging: attitudes, differentiation ability, and quantity and quality of contact

The Journal of Genetic Psychology
S M RosenwasserH J Ginsburg

Abstract

The attitudes and age differentiation ability of forty-seven 3- to 5-year-old children toward pictures of older and younger people were assessed. In addition, cognitive performance on a seriation task as well as the quantity and quality of each child's contact with adults over 60 years of age were measured. Chi squares were performed by sex and age of stimulus photograph on the attitudinal questions. One of the chi squares reached significance on the age comparison and two on the sex comparison. In addition, sign tests were used to assess the direction of the trends on the questions, and both age and sex trends were significant at the .05 level with children being more likely to choose pictures of younger rather than older models and female rather than male models. Ability to correctly order pictures by age was significantly related (r = .53, p less than .001) to the seriation ordering task. Four of the 18 correlations between contact and attitudinal variables were significant and negative.

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Apr 23, 2004·The Journal of Genetic Psychology·Thomas F Gross
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May 9, 2003·International Journal of Aging & Human Development·Sony Hoe, Denise Davidson

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