A Comparison of Adult Attitudes Toward Their Parents' Sexuality and Their Parents' Attitudes

Autor:	Nicole Poulin, Brian L. Mishara
Rok vydání:	1994
Předmět:	Community and Home Care Daughter Health (social science) Parents attitudes media_common.quotation_subject Human sexuality Likert scale Developmental psychology Cohort effect Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology Gerontology Intergenerational differences media_common
Zdroj:	Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement. 13:96-103
ISSN:	1710-1107 0714-9808
DOI:	10.1017/s0714980800006589
Popis:	This study compared the attitudes of adult children toward the sexuality of their older parents with their parent's own attitudes toward sexuality. A 56-item questionnaire was given to 41 family pairs consisting of a parent over age 65 and his or her son or daughter. Questions were based upon previous studies and involved six point Likért ratings. In general, attitudes toward sexuality were positive among parents and their adult children. However, adult children had significantly more positive attitudes than their parents. This difference was primarily due to more positive attitudes toward physical aspects of sexual behaviours. Overall, the disapproval and negative attitudes of adult children reported in previous research were not found in this study. Adult children had positive attitudes, much more positive attitudes than their parents, possibly due to a cohort effect
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