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Undergraduate Students' Image of the Elderly based on Knowledge and Attitudes  

Lee Shin-Sook (Department of Consumer and Family-Child Studies Sunchon National University in Korea)
Salari Sonia (Department of Family & Consumer Studies University of Utah in U.S.A)
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International Journal of Human Ecology / v.5, no.2, 2004 , pp. 31-49 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purposes of the study were to examine the trend of undergraduate students' knowledges and attitudes toward elderly and aging traits, and to present the influence of undergraduate students' attitudes. The subjects were 494 undergraduate students. Statistics used such as frequency, Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, t-test, Duncan test, ANOVA and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis. The results of this study were as follow: 1) Undergraduate students' knowledge level toward the elderly was low, and undergraduate students' attitudes level was middle. 2) There were meaningful differences in attitudes level according to sex, living together with elderly (the present time), living together with elderly (the past time), the presence of grandfather. It also had a significant correlation to the undergraduate students' knowledge. 3) The variables which affected the undergraduate students' attitudes were knowledge, sex, present co-residency with grandparents, past co-residency with grandparents, the presence grandfather, period of co-residency with grandparents that were explained about $24\%$. Among variables, knowledge of elderly was a very important variable on undergraduate students' attitudes.
Keywords
undergraduate; image of elderly; knowledge; attitude;
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