Benz, Hannah CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF AGE BIAS AND AGEISM BETWEEN AMERICAN AND GERMAN ADULTS AT VARYING AGES. 2023. Radford University, Thesis. Radford University Scholars' Repository.
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Abstract
Our society is aging rapidly, and older adults comprise a continuously growing proportion of the population. This shift in population age is expected to carry societal consequences, such as a rise in age discrimination. Ageism, the systematic stereotyping and categorizing of people based on their age, is not only the most commonly experienced kind of prejudice across Europe, but is also, in comparison, more present in individualistic, industrialized countries (Ackerman & Chopik, 2020). This 2 (participant culture: American, German) x 3 (image age; young, middle, older) x 3 (age group: young, middle, older) study investigated cross-cultural differences in age estimation and attitudes toward older adults in the USA and Germany. Participants from both cultures were recruited via Profilic.co and estimated the age of 12 male celebrities representing three different age groups (young, middle, and older adult) and two cultures (American and German). In addition, participants completed the original Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA; Fraboni et al, 1990). Effects of participant age, image age, and participant culture on age estimations repeated measures models were tested. Repeated measures models revealed a significant main effect of age estimations, such that on average, the age of young adults was overestimated while that of old adults was underestimated. This study further demonstrated a significant two-way interaction between image and participant age, such that younger participants were better at estimating the ages of young adults than those of older adults. Lastly, the psychometric analysis of the FSA demonstrated the initial step toward validity and the future use of the translated scale with German-speaking populations.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | Radford University > College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences > Department of Psychology |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2024 05:13 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2024 05:13 |
| URI: | http://wagner.radford.edu/id/eprint/1084 |
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