PERCEPTIONS OF ELDERLY ABOUT THE YOUTH - IS THERE A NEGATIVE YOUTH-STEREOTYPE

Authors
PINQUART M SCHONBRODT S
Citation
M. Pinquart et S. Schonbrodt, PERCEPTIONS OF ELDERLY ABOUT THE YOUTH - IS THERE A NEGATIVE YOUTH-STEREOTYPE, PSYCHOLOGIE IN ERZIEHUNG UND UNTERRICHT, 44(3), 1997, pp. 197-203
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Educational
Journal title
PSYCHOLOGIE IN ERZIEHUNG UND UNTERRICHT → ACNP
ISSN journal
0342183X
Volume
44
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
197 - 203
Database
ISI
SICI code
0342-183X(1997)44:3<197:POEATY>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Judgements of 76 elderly about youth are compared with opinions of 131 6th and 9th graders about their peers. Whereas approximately 50% of t he younger participants expected negative attitudes of the elderly, pe nsioners perceived the youth in single dimensions more positively than 6th and 9th graders judged their peers. But the elderly had more posi tive attitudes about their own youth than about the youth of today. Im plications for intergenerational interventions are discussed.