There are several excellent instruments and scales many of which have been validated numerous times. I am going through an exercise in comparing and contrasting the benefits and constraints of each (e.g. Revised Kogan's Attitudes Toward Old People scale (RKATOP), Age Group Evaluation and Description Inventory (AGED Inventory), Sarkisian's Expectations regarding Aging survey) to arrive at my own conclusions, but would also like the input of other researchers.
Hi dear Natalie Warrick
Qualitative studies will be performed to measure the attitude is better. In these studies, you can discover an understanding of people's attitudes. These studies help to get a deep understanding of the target variable. While questionnaires to the subconscious effect on mind and response. But the major problem them is that with a large population cannot be considered.
In relation to the questionnaire, you should consider a few things:
1. The questionnaire must be compatible with the culture of your country.
2. Make sure the content and face validity from the perspective of experts and the target group is examined.
3. The reliability is appropriate.
But here is a question: What is your age distribution of the study population?
If These scattering is high, you should check its validity and reliability in each group.
Questionnaires that have the conditions above, it can be a good questionnaire.
As well as questions on a questionnaire can also greatly advise you to select. You can check the questions on a questionnaire and select each questions of the questionnaire is closer to your view.
And do not forget questionnaire biggest drawback is that only one aspect of the review.
To overcome these limitations, you can use the mix-method. In this method you take advantage of the characteristics of qualitative and quantitative studies. You can study about it on this page:
https://obssr.od.nih.gov/scientific_areas/methodology/mixed_methods_research/section2.aspx
best regard
I do not have an answer to this, but I do want to thank you for bringing this issue to the forum!! Your question is extremely important and it will help educators such as myself to try to recruit young people to study aging.
You may not be aware of this, but we are facing a huge shortage of psychiatrists in the US and this has reached a critical period for geriatricians in all specialties, but especially psychiatry.
My area of expertise is health psychology and behavioral medicine as applied to aging. I try to get my undergraduates interested in aging, but most want to study child psychology or adolescent/middle adulthood.
I believe some work has shown that the more developed the country, the less younger people revere older people. In the US, it is so bad that we still refer to older adults as elderly, a pejorative term.
In your work, the first thing you may want to show a younger person is a graph of the number of younger people to older people in Germany, Italy, Japan, China or even the US.They will be amazed at how many people there are in these countries who will be retired, not working and in need of help with activities of daily living.
I believe that the age group with the largest population in the US is people who are 23 to 24 years old. This is fine, but this group does not need caregiving. Ask these young people who is going to care for all the older adults who are living longer and longer and then tell them it is in their interest to understand aging.
They certainly will never acknowledge that they will be there someday........it is too distant in the future....and why not pretend we are all immortal while we can??? Easier to do that at 24 than at 84.
Please keep me informed as to your work. I want to be able to recruit young people to study and help older people.
I do not have an answer to this, but I do want to thank you for bringing this issue to the forum!! Your question is extremely important and it will help educators such as myself to try to recruit young people to study aging.
You may not be aware of this, but we are facing a huge shortage of psychiatrists in the US and this has reached a critical period for geriatricians in all specialties, but especially psychiatry.
My area of expertise is health psychology and behavioral medicine as applied to aging. I try to get my undergraduates interested in aging, but most want to study child psychology or adolescent/middle adulthood.
I believe some work has shown that the more developed the country, the less younger people revere older people. In the US, it is so bad that we still refer to older adults as elderly, a pejorative term.
In your work, the first thing you may want to show a younger person is a graph of the number of younger people to older people in Germany, Italy, Japan, China or even the US.They will be amazed at how many people there are in these countries who will be retired, not working and in need of help with activities of daily living.
I believe that the age group with the largest population in the US is people who are 23 to 24 years old. This is fine, but this group does not need caregiving. Ask these young people who is going to care for all the older adults who are living longer and longer and then tell them it is in their interest to understand aging.
They certainly will never acknowledge that they will be there someday........it is too distant in the future....and why not pretend we are all immortal while we can??? Easier to do that at 24 than at 84.
Please keep me informed as to your work. I want to be able to recruit young people to study and help older people.
Hi Natalie, I am a gerontologist and I obtained an intergenerational certification from the University of PIttsburgh. One that I have used in intergenerational projects is Erdman Palmore's Aging Facts Quiz. I have administered it to the young and older participants before the intergenerational program. Then, again after the program to see if attitudes changed. This "instrument" has been widely used for about forty years. User-friendly. Check out this link to access the instrument.
http://cas.umkc.edu/gerontology/agingfactsquiz.asp
http://cas.umkc.edu/gerontology/agingfactsquiz.asp
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