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Youth's Attitudes Toward the Elderly: the Impact of Intergenerational Partners

Middle Tennessee State University

Cyndee Rice Sims

Senior Neighbors

Emilie Evans

Bright Elementary School

The authors examined changes in children's preceptions of the elderly following participation in a 9-month intergenerational project on aging. The project matched 24 fourth-grade student with 24 elderly subjects from a large senior citizens center. The project involved a number of shared activities throughout the school year. For comparative purposes, these students were matched by grade with a control group (N = 25). Using the Children's Perceptions of Aging and Elderly Inventory, the experimental group was judged to have significantly more positive attitudes toward the elderly than the control group (t = 2.79; p < .01). Results from a 1-year follow-up produced similar differences between the experimental and control groups (t = 2.12; p < .02). Qualitative statements by the experimental group also reveal a very positive attitude toward their own aging as well as toward the utility of the project.

Journal of Applied Gerontology, Vol. 10, No. 3, 372-384 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/073346489101000310


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