Ibrahim Camellia N, Bayen Ute J
Institute for Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.02, 40215, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Z Gerontol Geriatr. 2019 Sep;52(Suppl 3):180-187. doi: 10.1007/s00391-019-01554-y.
As population ageing takes place around the world, research on attitudes toward ageing and older people increases in relevance. With migration of people from the Arab world into countries with high percentages of older adults, attitudes toward ageing and older adults held in Arab culture are of particular interest.
The article provides a review of the empirical literature on attitudes toward ageing and older adults held in the Arab world and discusses the findings on the basis of the general literature on age stereotypes, attitudes toward ageing, and ageism as well as their link to culture.
A literature search was performed to find empirical studies on attitudes toward ageing and older adults that include Arab samples. Studies published in Arabic or English were included.
Studies on attitudes toward ageing with Arab samples are scarce and do not show cohesive patterns of results. None of the hypotheses that have been brought forward to explain cross-cultural differences regarding attitudes toward ageing (i.e., the culture, modernization, and speed of population ageing hypotheses) can fully account for the results. Possible reasons for conflicting results include sociodemographic variables, regional differences, lack of differentiation between meta-perceptions and personal attitudes, heterogeneity of measurement instruments and definitions of "older people" and possible confounds due to the usage of subjective Likert scales in cross-cultural studies.
Further research on attitudes toward ageing in Arab samples are needed and should consider heterogeneity within Arab culture as well as variables other than culture.
随着全球人口老龄化的加剧，对老龄化及老年人态度的研究愈发重要。随着阿拉伯世界的人口向老年人比例较高的国家迁移，阿拉伯文化中对老龄化及老年人的态度尤其引人关注。
本文回顾了关于阿拉伯世界对老龄化及老年人态度的实证文献，并基于有关年龄刻板印象、对老龄化的态度、年龄歧视及其与文化联系的一般文献，对研究结果进行了讨论。
进行文献检索，以查找包含阿拉伯样本的关于对老龄化及老年人态度的实证研究。纳入以阿拉伯语或英语发表的研究。
关于阿拉伯样本对老龄化态度的研究较少，且未呈现出一致的结果模式。为解释对老龄化态度的跨文化差异而提出的假设（即文化、现代化和人口老龄化速度假设）均无法完全解释研究结果。结果相互矛盾的可能原因包括社会人口统计学变量、地区差异、元认知与个人态度缺乏区分、测量工具的异质性以及“老年人”定义的差异，以及跨文化研究中使用主观李克特量表可能产生的混淆因素。
需要对阿拉伯样本对老龄化的态度进行进一步研究，且应考虑阿拉伯文化内部的异质性以及文化以外的变量。
