Mitchell J, Mathews H F
East Carolina University.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 1987;25(3):223-38. doi: 10.2190/N1RJ-GBTA-4KPH-UN6P.
Responses from 120 Afro-Caribbean children living in a rural Costa Rican community are used to identify two subdimensions of an index designed to measure children's perceptions of older adults. Sketches of an adult male and female at three ages are used to infer differences in subdimensions in children's perceptions by age and sex. It was found that older females are perceived by the children as more authoritative and older adult males as more affective. Ethnographic techniques are used together with the survey results to elaborate upon the findings and discuss their implications for a general modernization thesis of intergenerational relationships.
来自生活在哥斯达黎加农村社区的120名非裔加勒比儿童的回答被用于确定一个旨在衡量儿童对老年人看法的指数的两个子维度。使用三个年龄段的成年男性和女性素描来推断不同年龄和性别的儿童在子维度看法上的差异。研究发现，儿童认为老年女性更具权威性，老年男性更有亲和力。人种学技术与调查结果一起被用于详细阐述研究结果，并讨论其对代际关系一般现代化理论的影响。
