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María Paula Assis de Almeida Cordeiro, Florencio Vicente Castro
This research study describes and compares attitudes and knowledge on old age among higher education students of Coimbra and the relation of each of those constructs with the following variables:
gender, age, course, academic and professional experiences and time spent with older people. A sam- ple of 592 students (equivalent to 1.8 % of the total population) was selected. The instruments used were: a) a social-demographic questionnaire; b) a semantic differential scale (Neri, 1991, 1995); and c) the Palmore-Neri-Cachioni scale, a version of the Palmore Aging Quiz (Harris, Changas & Palmore, 1996; Palmore, 1977). From the analysis of the results, we highlight: a) the positive attitudes, especial- ly among older students, women and those who spend time with older people; b) that students enrolled in health courses show more positive attitudes and more knowledge; and c) that attitudes and knowl- edge are positively and significantly correlated
