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T1 The fight against prejudice in older adults: perspective taking effectiveness
T2 Combatiendo el prejuicio en personas mayores: efectividad de la toma de perspectiva
A1 Álvarez Castillo, José Luis
A1 Jiménez Eguizábal, Alfredo
A1 Palmero Cámara, María del Carmen
A1 González González, Hugo
K1 Prejudice
K1 Older Adults
K1 Perspective Taking
K1 Social Cognition
K1 Prejuicio
K1 Personas mayores
K1 Toma de perspectiva
K1 Cognición social
K1 Education
K1 Psychology
K1 Educación
K1 Psicología
AB Inhibition of prejudice appears to be more problematic for older adults, hence the need to develop programs to reduce intergroup bias at later stages in life. Perspective taking was analyzed in this study, as one of various cognitive strategies that have been shown to reduce such bias. Data on a sample of 63 Spanish participants with a mean age of 64.1 years was gathered after an intervention based on mental imagery, aimed at reducing explicit prejudice. A wide array of variables was measured (personality traits, values, empathy, and attribution) which may moderate effectiveness in perspective taking. Despite no main effect was found, effects due to interaction of perspective taking found in OLS regression analysis revealed that perspective taking based intervention was effective for some older adults, particularly those who had low scores on agreeableness, empathy, and universalism, and high scores on conformity. The conclusions suggest that perspective taking might be successfully applied to some profiles of older people albeit it is not as strong and transferable strategy as it used to be thought.
PB Elsevier
YR 2014
FD 2014-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4388
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4388
LA eng
NO Ministry ofScience and Innovation, Spain (R&D Project SEJ2005-00331),and from the Government of Castile and Leon, Spain (R&DProject BU030A08)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 24-nov-2024