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Awareness of Aging in Taiwan and the United States : An Examination of Ageism among College Students using Stereotypes and Future Self-views

Creator:

Allen, Pamela M.

Abstract:

Ageism in the context of global population aging could lead to increasing human and economic costs. Age stereotypes tend to be negative (Hummert, 1990) and ubiquitous (Nelson, 2002) there are a variety of well documented detrimental consequences of negative age stereotypes on older adults' physical, cognitive and psychological outcomes (Hummert,...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

growing importance especially in Asia, where most of today’s older people reside (United Nations, 2012