Knowledge, Attitudes, and Gerontological Work Preferences among Students of Religion.

Autor/inn/en	Monk, Abraham; Kaye, Lenard W.
Titel	Knowledge, Attitudes, and Gerontological Work Preferences among Students of Religion.
Quelle	(1981), (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Adult Development; Aging (Individuals); Attitude Measures; Church Related Colleges; College Graduates; College Students; Educational Gerontology; Higher Education; Judaism; Knowledge Level; Older Adults; Religious Education; Social Attitudes; Student Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erwachsenwerden; Aging; Altern; Kirchliche Hochschule; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Collegestudent; Geragogics; Geragogik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Judaismus; Wissensbasis; Älterer Erwachsener; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	Attitudes toward aging among 142 full-time students and 216 graduates at three urban campuses of a religious college were assessed. Respondent subgroups included rabbis, educators, cantors, and communal service workers. Social attitudes were measured by the Aging Semantic Differential (Rosencranz and McNevin, 1969). Respondents rated 32 dimensions for two categories of people: young people between 15 and 25 years old and old people between 65 and 75 years old. Both respondent groups perceived older people to be more autonomous or independent than young people, while they were more positive in their attitudes toward the young than the old on the issue of capacity for goal achievement or effectiveness. Additionally, when all attitudinal measures are aggregated, younger people were given more positive ratings than the elderly by both students and graduates. The Facts on Aging Quiz (Palmore, 1977) also was administered to determine knowledge about aging. Students were least knowledgeable about the demography of aging, psychological stress and aging, boredom and old age, poverty, and religiosity in old age. Recent graduates displayed similar misconceptions. Students and graduates in the area of communal services obtained the highest scores, while those in the area of education obtained the lowest scores. It is recommended that more attention be given to learning about the human life cycle, age-related stresses, and societal changes. Additional recommendations are offered, and topical areas are suggested for the study of education, cantorial, rabbinical, and communal service students. A bibliography is appended. (SW)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01