Robinson A D
J Natl Black Nurses Assoc. 1993 Spring-Summer;6(2):15-26.
The Perceptions of the Elderly Scale (PES) was administered to a sample of 246 aides working in nursing homes in the New York Metropolitan Area. The aides represented three Black American cultural groups: African Americans, English-speaking Caribbean Blacks (including Jamaicans, Trinidadians, and Barbadians) and Haitians. Members of these groups make up the overwhelming majority of nursing home aides in New York City. The results indicated that aides from all three groups had generally favorable attitudes toward the elderly, but the English-speaking Caribbean groups expressed significantly more favorable attitudes than aides in either of the two other groups. The observed differences were attributed to the traditional role of the older individual within West Indian culture as disciplinarian and authority figure. Implications for in-service education are discussed.
对纽约大都会区养老院工作的246名护理人员样本进行了老年人认知量表（PES）测试。这些护理人员代表了三个美国黑人文化群体：非裔美国人、说英语的加勒比黑人（包括牙买加人、特立尼达人及巴巴多斯人）和海地人。这些群体的成员构成了纽约市养老院护理人员的绝大多数。结果表明，所有三个群体的护理人员对老年人总体上持积极态度，但说英语的加勒比群体表达的积极态度明显多于其他两个群体中的任何一个。观察到的差异归因于西印度文化中老年人作为纪律执行者和权威人物的传统角色。文中讨论了对在职教育的启示。
