An Assessment of the Discrimination against Older Persons in the Brazilian Context ”“
Ageism
Keywords:
Discrimination, Older people, Ageism Survey, Brazil, StressAbstract
This study measured the prevalence of ageism in Brazil, as well as the stress level that is associated to it. Also, the Brazilian sample was compared to other two reference samples, an American and a Portuguese one. All participants (111 individuals) answered a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Ageism Survey, which is composed by items related to negative stereotypes, attitudes and elderly discrimination behavior. The results showed that the discrimination occurs more in social contexts, followed by those that occur in health contexts. As for the stress evaluation associated to the episodes of discrimination, in general, the mean of the items associated to stress was low. This may indicate that, for this sample, experiencing discrimination is not always related to stress.
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Crocker, C., & Major, B. (1989). Social stigma and self-esteem: The self-protective properties of stigma. Psychological Review, 96, 608-630.
Cuddy, A. J. C., & Fiske, S. T. (2002). Doddering but dear: Process, content, and function in stereotyping of older person. Em T. Nelson (Ed.), Ageism ”“ Stereotyping and prejudice against older persons (pp. 3-26). Cambridge: Bradford Books.
Cuddy, A. J. C., Norton, M. I., & Fiske, S. T. (2005). This old stereotype: The pervasiveness and persistence of the elderly stereotype. Journal of Social Issues, 61, 267-285.
Ferreira-Alves, J., & Novo, R. F. (2006). Avaliação da discriminação social de pessoas idosas em Portugal. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 6, 65-77.
Hess, T. M., Hinson, J. T., & Statham, J. A. (2004). Explicit and implicit stereotype activation effects on memory: Do age and awareness moderate the impact of priming? Psychology and Aging, 19, 495-505.
Kite, M. E., & Wagner, L. S. (2002). Attitudes toward older adults. Em T. Nelson (Ed.), Ageism ”“ Stereotyping and prejudice against older persons (pp. 129-161). Cambridge: Bradford Books.
Levy, B. (1996). Improving memory in old age by implicit self-stereotyping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 1092-1107.
Levy, B. (2003). Mind matters: Cognitive and physical effects of aging selfstereotypes. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 58B, 203-211.
Levy, B., Ashman, O., & Dror, I. (2000). To be or not to be: The effects of aging stereotypes on the will to live. OMEGA, 40, 409-420.
Levy, B., & Banaji, M. R. (2002). Implicit ageism. Em T. Nelson (Ed.), Ageism ”“ Stereotyping and prejudice against older persons (pp. 49-75). Cambridge: Bradford Books.
Levy, B., & Langer, E. (1994). Aging free from negative stereotypes: Successful memory in China among the American deaf. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 989-997.
Minichiello, V., Browne, J., & Kendig, H. (2000). Perceptions and consequences of ageism: Views of older people, Aging and Society, 20, 253-278.
Nelson, T. (2005). Ageism: Prejudice against our feared future self. Journal of Social Issues, 61, 207-221.
Neri, A. L. (2005). Palavras-chave em gerontologia. Campinas: Alínea.
Nussbaum, J. F., Pitts, M. J., Huber, F. N., Krieger, J. R. L., & Ohs, J. E. (2005). Ageism and ageist language across the life span: Intimate relationships and non-intimate interactions. Journal of Social Issues, 61, 287-305.
Palmore, E. B. (2001). The Ageism Survey: First findings. The Gerontologist, 41, 572-575.
Palmore, E. B. (2004). Research note: Ageism in Canada and the United States. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 19, 41-46.
Pinquart, M. (2002). Good news about the effects of bad old-age stereotypes. Experimental Aging Research, 28, 317-336.
Rothermund, K., & Brandstädter, J. (2003). Age stereotypes and self-views in later life: Evaluating rival assumptions. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 27, 549-554.
Veloz, M. C. T., Nascimento-Schulze, C. M., & Camargo, B. V. (1999). Representações sociais do envelhecimento. Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica, 12, 479-501.
Wentura, D., & Brandstädter, J. (2003). Age stereotypes in younger and older women: Analyses of accommodative shifts with a sentence-priming task. Experimental Psychology, 50, 16-26.
Wentura, D., Dräger, D., & Brandstäter, J. (1997). Alternsstereotype im frühen und höheren Erwachsenenalter: Analyse akkommodativer Veränderungen anhand einer Satzpriming-Technik [Age stereotypes in early and late adulthood: Analyses of accommodative shifts in a sentence-priming task]. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 28, 109-128.
Yunes, M. A. M. & Szymanski, H. (2001). Resiliência: noção, conceitos afins e considerações críticas. Em J. Tavares (Ed.) Resiliência e educação (pp. 13-42). São Paulo: Cortez.
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Published
2010-02-09
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Couto, M. C. de P., Koller, S. H., Novo, R., & Soares, P. S. (2010). An Assessment of the Discrimination against Older Persons in the Brazilian Context ”“: Ageism. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 25(4), 509. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17412
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