Anxiety, Outcome Expectancies, and Young People's Willingness to Engage in Contact with the Elderly

Autor/inn/en	Hutchison, Paul; Fox, Edward; Laas, Anna Maria; Matharu, Jasmin; Urzi, Serena
Titel	Anxiety, Outcome Expectancies, and Young People's Willingness to Engage in Contact with the Elderly
Quelle	In: Educational Gerontology, 36 (2010) 10-11, S.1008-1021 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-1277
Schlagwörter	Self Efficacy; Young Adults; Older Adults; Anxiety; Correlation; Intergenerational Programs; Experience; Expectation; Social Bias; College Students; Late Adolescents; Aging (Individuals) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Älterer Erwachsener; Angst; Korrelation; Erfahrung; Expectancy; Erwartung; Collegestudent; Halbstarker; Aging; Altern
Abstract	A cross-sectional study (N = 61) investigated the relationship between young people's previous experiences of intergenerational contact and their willingness to engage in future contact with the elderly. Regression analyses confirmed that frequent positive intergenerational contact predicted more positive outcome expectancies, less intergroup anxiety, and more willingness to engage in future contact with elderly people. Meditation analyses confirmed that outcome expectancies mediated the influence of contact on intergenerational anxiety, and intergenerational anxiety, in turn, mediated the influence of both contact and outcome expectancies on willingness to engage in future contact with elderly people. Discussion focuses on the implications for strategies aimed at reducing ageism. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10