Assessing Young University Students’ Behaviour Regarding Age Discrimination Üniversiteli Gençlerin Yaşlı Ayrımcılığına Yönelik Davranışlarının Değerlendirilmesi
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| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (Uluslararası alan indekslerindeki dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
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| Makale Dili | – | Basım Tarihi | 01-2013 |
| Makale Linki | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aysegul-Koc/publication/335232103_Assessing_Young_University_Students_Behaviour_Regarding_Age_Discrimination/links/5f731fff458515b7cf5679f1/Assessing-Young-University-Students-Behaviour-Regarding-Age-Discriminatio | ||
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Doğum ve Kadın Hastalıkları Hemşireliği
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| Aim Ageism is the reflection in the behaviors of a mature person’s attitudes; he develops without considering any variable. Old age, like the other stages of life, is an inevitable condition applicable to all human beings. This crosssectional and comparative study aims to assess the attitudes of the students from two universities located in two different parts of Turkey towards old age, and to determine the relevant factors. Material and Method In the current study planned to be comparative and cross-sectional, students attending universities in the provinces of Yozgat and Kastamonu constituted the universe. The study has been completed, without any sampling method, with the participation of all the students reachable. It was completed between March 2012 and April 2012, before the end of the academic year. Sociodemographic features forms and ageism attitude scale (AAS) have been used to collect data. For statistical analyses, use was made of means, standard deviations, medians, maximum and minimum values, percentages, one way Anova test and independent t-test. Results It has been found in the study that the median of the students’ total AAS scores was 72.29 (min= 37-max= 96), the mean of the sub-dimension “limiting the life of the aged” was 30.16 and the sub-dimension of negative ageism was 19.17. It has been determined that the mean age of the students was 20.77±2.59 (N= 349) and that the mean age of the female students was lower than that of the male students. According to the findings from the study, the age and number of siblings have not been found correlated to scale score. Discussion It has been found that the attitude … |
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