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| Degree and content of negative meaning in four different age groups in Germany | | Author(s) | Sanna Read, Gerben J Westerhof, Freya Dittmann-Kohli |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 61, no 2, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 85-104 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Young adults [20-25] ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; Attitude ; Adjustment ; Comparison ; Germany. |
| Annotation | Negative meanings refer to negative evaluations, attitudes and beliefs, negative feelings, fears, negative future expectations, and barriers to goal realisation. As part of the German Aging Survey, a sample of 3,306 people was drawn from 290 cities, and stratified according to four age groups (18-25, 40-54, 55-69, and 70-85), gender and region of residence (West of East Germany). A sentence completion task was administered to study negative meaning. An analysis of variance was carried out for the degree of negative meaning, as well as a binary logistic regression and correspondence analysis for the content of negative meaning to study differences between the four age groups, gender and East or West Germany. Results showed that the youngest age group, men and people living in the Western part of Germany reported significantly less negative meaning than other groups. However, the differences between the groups was very small. The negative meaning showed different content in age groups reflecting age-graded developmental tasks. Some gender and regional differences in the content of negative meaning were also found. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050916205 A |
| Classmark | SD6: SE: BB: DP: DR: 48: 767 |
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