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KNOWLEDGE OF AGEING: AN INTERGENERATIONAL COMPARISON
Author(s) -
Luszcz M. A.,
Paull I.,
Fitzgerald K. M.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 0726-4240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.1985.tb00867.x
Subject(s) - ageing , psychosocial , cohort , gerontology , psychology , healthy ageing , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry
Thirty adolescent, middle‐aged, and elderly people participated in a study examining cohort differences in knowledge of ageing. Each responded to Miller and Dodder's 10 version of Palmore's 1 Facts on Ageing Quiz. Age and percentage correct on the quiz were positively correlated. Adolescents knew significantly less about ageing than the aged but middle aged adults knew about the same. Physical aspects of ageing were known better than psychosocial and demographic characteristics. Cohorts shared the same misconceptions, but to differing degrees.