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Attitudes toward Aging among College Students: Results from an Intergenerational Reminiscence Project
The detrimental effects of negative attitudes toward aging among younger adults extend to both older and young adults, highlighting the need for attention from academics, applied researchers, and practitioners. To improve college students’ attitudes toward aging, an intergenerational reminiscence in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10376671/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37503985 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13070538 |
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author | Xu, Ling Fields, Noelle L. Cassidy, Jessica Daniel, Kathryn M. Cipher, Daisha J. Troutman, Brooke A. |
author_facet | Xu, Ling Fields, Noelle L. Cassidy, Jessica Daniel, Kathryn M. Cipher, Daisha J. Troutman, Brooke A. |
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description | The detrimental effects of negative attitudes toward aging among younger adults extend to both older and young adults, highlighting the need for attention from academics, applied researchers, and practitioners. To improve college students’ attitudes toward aging, an intergenerational reminiscence intervention was conducted. College students, who were randomized to intervention or control groups and matched with older adults, made weekly phone calls to community-dwelling older adults with cognitive impairment for ten weeks. This study investigated whether college students improved their attitudes toward aging after participating in this project. A total of 64 college student participants completed the whole intervention and all data collection. The Fraboni Scale of Ageism was used to measure attitudes toward aging and administered at three time points (pre-, mid-, and post-test). Parametric and nonparametric tests were examined to understand changes over time, and post-hoc analyses were conducted to understand timepoints in which changes occurred. The results showed that both the intervention and control groups evidenced a decrease in the majority of the ageism scale, including statistical improvements in three specific negative items, which were “Seniors are stingy and hoard money”, “Seniors live in the past”, and “I prefer not to spend time with seniors”. Overall, the findings indicate that weekly engagement with older adults is promising in improving attitudes toward aging among college students. Implications for future research on intergenerational contacts to improve attitudes toward aging are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-103766712023-07-29 Attitudes toward Aging among College Students: Results from an Intergenerational Reminiscence Project Xu, Ling Fields, Noelle L. Cassidy, Jessica Daniel, Kathryn M. Cipher, Daisha J. Troutman, Brooke A. Behav Sci (Basel) Brief Report The detrimental effects of negative attitudes toward aging among younger adults extend to both older and young adults, highlighting the need for attention from academics, applied researchers, and practitioners. To improve college students’ attitudes toward aging, an intergenerational reminiscence intervention was conducted. College students, who were randomized to intervention or control groups and matched with older adults, made weekly phone calls to community-dwelling older adults with cognitive impairment for ten weeks. This study investigated whether college students improved their attitudes toward aging after participating in this project. A total of 64 college student participants completed the whole intervention and all data collection. The Fraboni Scale of Ageism was used to measure attitudes toward aging and administered at three time points (pre-, mid-, and post-test). Parametric and nonparametric tests were examined to understand changes over time, and post-hoc analyses were conducted to understand timepoints in which changes occurred. The results showed that both the intervention and control groups evidenced a decrease in the majority of the ageism scale, including statistical improvements in three specific negative items, which were “Seniors are stingy and hoard money”, “Seniors live in the past”, and “I prefer not to spend time with seniors”. Overall, the findings indicate that weekly engagement with older adults is promising in improving attitudes toward aging among college students. Implications for future research on intergenerational contacts to improve attitudes toward aging are discussed. MDPI 2023-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10376671/ /pubmed/37503985 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13070538 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Xu, Ling Fields, Noelle L. Cassidy, Jessica Daniel, Kathryn M. Cipher, Daisha J. Troutman, Brooke A. Attitudes toward Aging among College Students: Results from an Intergenerational Reminiscence Project |
title | Attitudes toward Aging among College Students: Results from an Intergenerational Reminiscence Project |
title_full | Attitudes toward Aging among College Students: Results from an Intergenerational Reminiscence Project |
title_fullStr | Attitudes toward Aging among College Students: Results from an Intergenerational Reminiscence Project |
title_full_unstemmed | Attitudes toward Aging among College Students: Results from an Intergenerational Reminiscence Project |
title_short | Attitudes toward Aging among College Students: Results from an Intergenerational Reminiscence Project |
title_sort | attitudes toward aging among college students: results from an intergenerational reminiscence project |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10376671/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37503985 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13070538 |
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