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Lin, Xiaoping; Bryant, Christina; Boldero, Jennifer – Educational Gerontology, 2011
Measuring medical and allied health students' attitudes towards older people has been identified as an important research area. The present study compared the use of implicit and explicit attitude measures. Sixty-five undergraduates completed one explicit measure, the Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA), (Fraboni, Saltstone, & Hughes, 1990) and one…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Social Desirability, Association Measures, Attitude Measures
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Chen, Yiwei; Pethtel, Olivia; Ma, Xiaodong – Educational Gerontology, 2010
The major goals of the present study were to (a) examine age differences in susceptibility to age stereotypes and (b) test a self-awareness manipulation in counteracting age stereotypes. Young and older adults read two sets of descriptors that only differed in the to-be-ignored age-related information. In the high self-awareness condition,…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Older Adults, Videotape Recorders, Age Differences