We Were All Once Young: Reducing Hostile Ageism From Younger Adults' Perspective.

ABSTRACT: The worldwide spreading pandemic, COVID-19, has caused hostile ageism toward older adults. We adopted a new intervention to reduce such hostile ageism. "Imagine that they were Young" referred to the imagination of what an older adult might look like, think, and behave when they were once young, which was a reversed but refined intervention of the widely-used method of "Imagine that you were old." In the present study, intergenerational tension was primed, and then 205 younger adults in China aged 18-37 were randomly assigned to 3 different conditions ("Imagine that they were Young," "Imagine that you were old," and control condition), asking them to imagine (and then write down) once older adults were young, or a future aging self, or read an unrelated essay respectively as experimental ma

SUBMITTER: Chen Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8988281 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature