Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390002
Online published on 31 January, 2023.
The current research aimed to explore the attitude of randomly selected 220 youths of Uttarakhand(J 10 males and 110 females), having different socio-demographic backgrounds, towards the old This quantitative study employed a cross-sectional questionnaire. A self structured socio-demographic questionnaire and Farboni Scale of Ageism (FSA) developed by Fraboni, et al., (1990) were employed to measure ageism. The result revealed that the majority of youth respondents had high ageism. A significant gender difference in mean scores of ageism levels was reported with higher ageist attitudes among females. Further ageism was found to be significantly higher among respondents having no exposure to living with the elderly or having financially dependent elderly as compared to their counterparts. The study validates the results of other studies that report higher ageism among the young population globally. A programme focusing on youth education regarding ageing and related changes need to be developed by stakeholders to promote and sustain a positive ageist attitude towards the elderly population.
Ageism, Youth, Elderly, Gender, Living with Elderly, Financially Dependent
