ATTITUDES OF BACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDENTS TOWARD OLDER ADULTS AND THEIR EXPRESSED PREFERENCE TOWARD WORKING WITH OLDER ADULTS.
Contributors: University of Mississippi.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Gerontology.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of baccalaureate nursing students toward older adults. Three hundred and forty-eight junior and senior nursing students from three baccalaureate schools of nursing in a southeastern state participated in the study. The Tuckman and Lorge Attitude Questionnaire was used to determine if the students had more stereotypic attitudes toward 45 year old patients or 75 year old patients. The effects of variables, such as age, sex, race, educational level, and exposure to older adults, in determining the students' attitudes were measured. Statistical analyses were conducted using analysis of variance, $t$ test, Pearson product-moment correlation, and the Friedman two-way analysis of variance.

The results indicated that the nursing students had more stereotyped assumptions about 75 year old patients than 45 year old patients, and nursing students prefer not to work with older people.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-02, Section: A, page: 0519.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, 1988.

School code: 0131.