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Race and Gender-Based Perceptions of Older Adults: Will the Youth Lead the Way?
- Source :
- J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Older individuals encounter the greatest racial/gender biases. It is unknown whether younger generations, who often lead culture shifts, have racial and gender biases against older populations. Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk’s crowdsourcing, we identified how an individual’s race and gender are associated with perceptions of individuals aged mid-60s. Participants were asked to rate photograph appearances on Likert Scale (1–10). Interactions between participant and photograph race and gender were assessed with mixed effects models. Delta represents rating differences (positive value higher rating for Whites or women, negative value higher rating for African-Americans or men). Among 1563 participants (mean 35 years ± 12), both non-Hispanic White (WP) and all Other race/ethnicity (OP) participants perceived African-American photos as more trustworthy [Delta WP -0.60(95%CI–0.83, − 0.37); Delta OP − 0.51(− 0.74,-0.28), interaction p = 0.06], more attractive [Delta non-Hispanic White participants − 0.63(− 0.97, − 0.29); Delta Other race/ethnicity participants − 0.40 (− 0.74, − 0.28), interaction p
- Subjects :
- Male
Delta
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
Adolescent
Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject
Ethnic group
White People
Article
Older population
03 medical and health sciences
Race (biology)
Sex Factors
0302 clinical medicine
Perception
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Aged
media_common
030505 public health
Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Hispanic or Latino
Bias, Implicit
United States
Black or African American
Trustworthiness
Anthropology
Female
Implicit bias
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21968837 and 21973792
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ef29b4a76829c7e82a283704aade217f