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Comparison of efficacy and age discrimination between psychology and nursing students
Nancy J Karlin1, Jessica Emick, Elizabeth Emick Mehls
1School of Psychological Sciences, University of Nothern Colorado, 501 20th Street, Greeley, CO, 80639, USA.
Abstract:
This study considered two types of age discrimination (youth and elder) and related scale scores for 108 psychology students and 81 nursing students. The current study found that although the nursing students had a significantly larger number of courses related to aging, both nursing and psychology students reported low levels of age discrimination. Overall, attitudes of both the nursing and psychology students toward both young and elder populations were positive. Nursing students held higher levels of efficacy with regards to working with the elder population in comparison to psychology students.
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