"Attitudes" toward the elderly: a comparison of measures.
College students were presented five questionnaires traditionally used to assess attitudes toward old people. The intercorrelations among the measures were low, accounting for no more than 24% of the variance between any two measures. The results suggest that the measures are not equivalent; it was argued that the practice of utilizing a single instrument to measure attitudes toward the elderly may contribute to inconsistencies reported in the literature.
D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities