Graduate Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Sexually Active Older Persons

Abstract

A review of empirical evidence relevant to widespread assumptions about taboos for aged sexuality is supplemented by a report of a study measuring the attitudes of 114 students enrolled in a Master of Science nursing program toward a 68-year-old woman. These nurses, each of whom read a vignette which either contained or excluded information about the woman's sexual activity, exhibited a statistically significant bias favoring the sexually active version on such variables as well-adjustedness and cheerfulness. Implications for practice are discussed.

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