Relationships between six cultural scales and ten ageism dimensions: Correlation analysis using data from 31 countries

TL;DR

This study investigates how six cultural dimensions relate to ten aspects of ageism across 31 countries, revealing significant correlations after controlling for economic and demographic factors.

Contribution

It is the first to demonstrate that multiple cultural scales are associated with various dimensions of ageism using large-scale international data.

Findings

Cultural scales are correlated with ageism dimensions.

Diverse cultural factors influence attitudes towards aging.

Results control for economic and demographic variables.

Abstract

As the aging of the world accelerates, clarifying the relationship between cultural differences and ageism is an urgent issue. Therefore, in this study, we conducted a correlation analysis between the six cultural scales of Hofstede et al. [1] and the 10 ageism scales calculated from data on 35,232 people from 31 countries included in the World Values Survey Wave 6 by Inglehart et al. [2]. The results of a partial correlation analysis controlling for economic and demographic factors showed that the cultural scales were correlated with ageism. This is the first study to show that diverse cultural scales are related to multiple dimensions of ageism.