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Peer reviewedLuszcz, Mary A. – Gerontologist, 1982
Administered Palmore's Facts on Aging Quiz to Australian undergraduates (N=188). Provided documentation based on available Australian statistics. Results showed a high degree of similarity in factual knowledge, misconceptions, and direction of bias of Australian students compared to those tested in the United States. (Author)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Bias, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedSundstrom, Gerdt – Gerontologist, 1986
Geographic distance and contacts between adults and their aging parents in Sweden vary by social class as well as by social mobility of the offspring. Middle class adults live further from their parents and have less contact with them. Degree of contact is quite similar between social classes for those who live near their parents. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Demography, Family Relationship, Foreign Countries, Geographic Location
Peer reviewedHong, Seon-Hee Mo; Keith, Pat M. – Gerontologist, 1992
Used individual modernity as measure of modernization and decision-making power to assess status of aged at micro level. Examined how modernity, family environment, and demographic characteristics affect status of aged in extended family. Data were analyzed from 252 Korean elderly living with married child. Found that individual modernity was…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Decision Making, Demography, Family Environment
