Perceptions of Parental Health Status and Attitudes toward Aging

William Rakowski · Clifton E. Barber · Wayne Clement Seelbach

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A sample of 74 young adults provided information on attitudes toward aging and perceptions of past, present, and future parental health. Ratings of relatively unfavorable parental health were associated with greater anxiety toward personal aging, and a less positive view of friends' and peers' aging. No association was evident with attitudes toward the elderly as a general group. Respondents' selfratings of health and respondents' sex also surfaced as significant predictors of attitudes. Results suggest the need to consider parental health status at mid-life as it may affect young-adult children's life course perspectives and willingness to participate in family related programs.

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