Age And Other Individual Difference Variables Predict Ageism Awareness
Carly Pullen, Julie Hicks-Patrick

TL;DR
The study finds that age and sex influence how people view ageism, with older individuals and women perceiving it as a more significant issue.
Contribution
The study identifies age and sex as key predictors of ageism awareness in a diverse sample.
Findings
Age and sex uniquely predict how prominent people believe ageism to be.
Lower hostile ageism is associated with a higher perception of ageism as an issue.
Benevolent ageism does not significantly affect perceptions of ageism.
Abstract
One in every two people endorses ageist attitudes (WHO, 2021). Identifying the 50% who do and do not endorse such attitudes may reduce bias in Society. We examined beliefs about ageism among an age-diverse sample, including 231 US-based adults (51.9% female; Mage= 47.51, SD = 16; 67.5% WNH). A hierarchical regression examined how prominent an issue people believe ageism to be (M = 2.38 out of 4, SD = 0.88). In Step 1, age, sex, and race were entered into the model. Results were significant, F (3,227) = 9.13, p < .001, but only 10.8% of the variance in how prominent an issue people believe ageism to be was explained. Age and sex uniquely contributed to the model, (βage = .26, p< .001) and (βsex = .16, p < .05). In Step 2, hostile and benevolent ageism were added to the model to determine if a person’s attitude regarding older adults impacted their perception of ageism as a problem.…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAging and Gerontology Research · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Social and Intergroup Psychology
