Marquet Manon, Missotten Pierre, Schroyen Sarah, Nindaba Desiderate, Adam Stéphane
Psychology of Aging Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Clin Interv Aging. 2016 Aug 24;11:1129-39. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S105298. eCollection 2016.
Recent cross-cultural comparisons between Asian and Western cultures have shown that ageism arises more from the lack of availability of social and economic resources for older adults than from the culture itself. We tested this assumption by conducting a survey among people living in a least developed country compared with those living in a developed country.
Twenty-seven Belgians living in Belgium, 29 Burundians living in Belgium, and 32 Burundians living in Burundi were included in this study. Their attitudes toward older adults were assessed using several self-reported measures.
Statistical analyses confirmed that older people are more negatively perceived by Burundians living in Burundi than by Burundians and Belgians living in Belgium, whose attitudes did not differ from each other.
Consistent with our hypothesis, our results suggest that the level of development of a country and more particularly the lack of government spending on older people (pension and health care systems) may contribute to their younger counterparts perceiving them more negatively.
最近亚洲与西方文化之间的跨文化比较表明，年龄歧视更多源于老年人缺乏社会和经济资源，而非文化本身。我们通过对生活在最不发达国家的人群与生活在发达国家的人群进行调查来检验这一假设。
本研究纳入了27名生活在比利时的比利时人、29名生活在比利时的布隆迪人以及32名生活在布隆迪的布隆迪人。使用多种自我报告测量方法评估了他们对老年人的态度。
统计分析证实，生活在布隆迪的布隆迪人比生活在比利时的布隆迪人和比利时人对老年人的看法更负面，而生活在比利时的布隆迪人和比利时人之间的态度没有差异。
与我们的假设一致，我们的结果表明，一个国家的发展水平，尤其是政府在老年人（养老金和医疗保健系统）方面支出的缺乏，可能导致年轻人对老年人的看法更负面。
